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The sharpening of ~13 cents of 11/8 can fit with the 9/8 and 13/8 which both are about 7 cents sharp. This is the basis of a subtle trick: the guitarist tunes the high 'E' string flat by several cents, enough to be imperceptible in many contexts, but which makes chords/harmonies against those several intervals tuned more justly. | The sharpening of ~13 cents of 11/8 can fit with the 9/8 and 13/8 which both are about 7 cents sharp. This is the basis of a subtle trick: the guitarist tunes the high 'E' string flat by several cents, enough to be imperceptible in many contexts, but which makes chords/harmonies against those several intervals tuned more justly. | ||
Likewise the 16-cent flat 27\34 approximate 7/4 can be musically useful. On the other hand, the | Likewise the 16-cent flat 27\34 approximate 7/4 can be musically useful. On the other hand, the slightly worse and sharper 7/4, 28\34, sounds more like the "dominant seventh" found in blues and jazz – which some listeners are accustomed to. ([[68edo]] (34 × 2) preserves the 34edo structure and has the intervals 7/8 and 11/8 tuned nearly just.) | ||
=== Selected just intervals by error === | === Selected just intervals by error === | ||