Frequently asked questions: Difference between revisions

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 == Answered questions ==
 * '''There's so much to read. Where do I start?'''
-The page [[Xen concepts for beginners]] is the best place to start. After that, check out [[General Theory]] for a list of foundational pages about musical tuning.
+** The page [[Xen concepts for beginners]] is the best place to start.
+** After that, check out [[General Theory]] for a list of foundational pages about musical tuning.
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 * '''[[Temperament naming|I discovered a new temperament, how should I name it?]]'''
+* '''What does “golden” mean in “golden meantone”, “golden flattone”, etc?'''
+** [[Rank-2 temperament]]s (of which meantone and flattone are two among many) generate [[MOS scale]]s with two step sizes, large and small.
+** Depending on what [[generator]] you use for the temperament, you can make the ratio between large:small different. For example you can have 3:1 meantone, 2:1 meantone, 3:2 meantone, etc. and the same goes for any other rank-2 temperament.
+** If the ratio between the step sizes is the [[golden ratio]], then the tuning is a golden tuning, such as “golden meantone”, “golden flattone” or similar.
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