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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**Baseball** is a temperament using a large tritone, around 638.5 cents, as a generator, and an octave period. This results in a temperament with very wide fifths (around 714 or 715 cents); the fifth being three generator steps away.

The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the [[12edo]] major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball.

The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the [[12edo]] major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball. Although sharp, it is not at all unpleasant, and it's relatively easy to get accustomed to. A 12edo fifth played after a series of baseball fifths may actually sound flat because the listener will have gotten accustomed to the latter.

Apart from the wide fifth, another characteristic of baseball is that the 5th harmonic is approximated in two different ways (one of which is also very sharp, the other is slightly flat). Both are usable for harmony which gives an unusual situation in which two noticeably different intervals actually have the same just approximation.

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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Baseball</title></head><body><strong>Baseball</strong> is a temperament using a large tritone, around 638.5 cents, as a generator, and an octave period. This results in a temperament with very wide fifths (around 714 or 715 cents); the fifth being three generator steps away.<br />

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The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the <a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo">12edo</a> major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball.<br />

The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the <a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo">12edo</a> major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball. Although sharp, it is not at all unpleasant, and it's relatively easy to get accustomed to. A 12edo fifth played after a series of baseball fifths may actually sound flat because the listener will have gotten accustomed to the latter.<br />

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Apart from the wide fifth, another characteristic of baseball is that the 5th harmonic is approximated in two different ways (one of which is also very sharp, the other is slightly flat). Both are usable for harmony which gives an unusual situation in which two noticeably different intervals actually have the same just approximation.<br />

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 <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**Baseball** is a temperament using a large tritone, around 638.5 cents, as a generator, and an octave period. This results in a temperament with very wide fifths (around 714 or 715 cents); the fifth being three generator steps away.
-The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the [[12edo]] major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball.
+The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the [[12edo]] major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball. Although sharp, it is not at all unpleasant, and it's relatively easy to get accustomed to. A 12edo fifth played after a series of baseball fifths may actually sound flat because the listener will have gotten accustomed to the latter.
 Apart from the wide fifth, another characteristic of baseball is that the 5th harmonic is approximated in two different ways (one of which is also very sharp, the other is slightly flat). Both are usable for harmony which gives an unusual situation in which two noticeably different intervals actually have the same just approximation.
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-The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo"&gt;12edo&lt;/a&gt; major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball.&lt;br /&gt;
+The temperament is named in honor of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron; Ruth having had 714 career home runs, and Aaron breaking Ruth's record with his 715th; both numbers being possible widths of the baseball fifth in cents. The baseball fifth is about as sharp as the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo"&gt;12edo&lt;/a&gt; major third, and provides the characteristic sound of baseball. Although sharp, it is not at all unpleasant, and it's relatively easy to get accustomed to. A 12edo fifth played after a series of baseball fifths may actually sound flat because the listener will have gotten accustomed to the latter.&lt;br /&gt;
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 Apart from the wide fifth, another characteristic of baseball is that the 5th harmonic is approximated in two different ways (one of which is also very sharp, the other is slightly flat). Both are usable for harmony which gives an unusual situation in which two noticeably different intervals actually have the same just approximation.&lt;br /&gt;