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A '''well temperament''' (or '''circulating temperament''') is a [[tuning system]] which is regarded as an approximation of an [[equal tuning]], has the same [[equave]] as that equal tuning and preserves the transposability of the equal tuning, but is not exactly the equal tuning being approximated. Historical well-temperaments were formed by stacking a combination of pure [[3/2]] and meantone fifths and had 12 nearly equal steps. | A '''well temperament''' (or '''circulating temperament''') is a [[tuning system]] which is regarded as an approximation of an [[equal tuning]], has the same [[equave]] as that equal tuning and preserves the transposability of the equal tuning, but is not exactly the equal tuning being approximated. Historical well-temperaments were formed by stacking a combination of pure [[3/2]] and meantone fifths and had 12 nearly equal steps. | ||
One of the advantages of these tunings is that because they are not quite equal, each chord (or key) has a slightly different character because the interval sizes have changed slightly. | One of the advantages of these tunings is that because they are not quite equal, each chord (or key) has a slightly different character because the interval sizes have changed slightly. | ||
In the lens of [[regular temperament theory]], a well temperament can also be viewed as a specific tuning of an equal temperament. See individual [[edo]] pages for contemporary well temperaments based on the corresponding equal temperament. | |||
== Historical well temperaments == | == Historical well temperaments == | ||