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== Answered questions ==
== Answered questions ==


=== About navigating and editing the wiki ===
=== About musical tuning ===
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* '''[[Microtonal music|What is microtonal music?]]'''
 
 
* '''[[Why Microtonality?|Why microtonality?]]''' (And why does anyone care about microtonal music?)
 
 
* '''[[Approaches to Musical Tuning|What are some different kinds of tuning systems that exist?]]'''
 
 
* '''[[Systematic comma names explained|How do I decode those strange looking comma names?]]'''
 
 
* '''What does “golden” refer to 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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* '''[[Xenharmonic Wiki:Copyrights|What is this wiki's copyright/intellectual property policy?]]'''
* '''[[Xenharmonic Wiki:Copyrights|What is this wiki's copyright/intellectual property policy?]]'''
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* '''[[I'm a new editor, what is everything I can do to help?]]'''
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** If you want to cite the same reference multiple times, give it a name e.g.<nowiki> “<ref name="Bob et al.">The contents of the note</ref>” </nowiki>the first time you use it.
** If you want to cite the same reference multiple times, give it a name e.g.<nowiki> “<ref name="Bob et al.">The contents of the note</ref>” </nowiki>the first time you use it.
*** Then every subsequent time you can just use<nowiki> <ref name="Bob et al." /> </nowiki>without all the rest.
*** Then every subsequent time you can just use<nowiki> <ref name="Bob et al." /> </nowiki>without all the rest.
=== About musical tuning ===
<br>
* '''[[Microtonal music|What is microtonal music?]]'''
* '''[[Why Microtonality?|Why microtonality?]]''' (And why does anyone care about microtonal music?)
* '''[[Approaches to Musical Tuning|What are some different kinds of tuning systems that exist?]]'''
* '''[[Systematic comma names explained|How do I decode those strange looking comma names?]]'''
* '''What does “golden” refer to 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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