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'''Equal divisions of the octave''' ('''[[EDO]]''') and '''equal [[temperament]]s''' ('''ET''') are not the same thing, at least not in concept. An equal division of the octave is | '''Equal divisions of the octave''' ('''[[EDO]]''') and '''equal [[temperament]]s''' ('''ET''') are not the same thing, at least not in concept. An equal division of the octave is a concrete tuning — a division of the pure 2/1 octave of 1200 cents into some number of equal parts. An equal temperament, on the other hand, is what you get when you take an EDO and declare its intervals to be approximations to Just Intonation, thus adding a new conceptual layer on top of the bare equal division. | ||
==Why bother making this distinction?== | ==Why bother making this distinction?== | ||