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'''Unnoticeable commas''' are very small intervals. These commas are called "unnoticeable" because, being equal to or less than 3.5 cents, they are smaller than the average peak [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystem2.html#2 JND] (just-noticeable difference) of human pitch perception, as illustrated by the research of [[Aaron_Andrew_Hunt|Aaron Andrew Hunt]]. It is improbable that even a trained listener would be able to notice these intervals, and as such they a prime target for psychoacoustically informed [[Microtempering|microtempering]].

'''Unnoticeable commas''' are very small intervals. These commas are called "unnoticeable" because, being equal to or less than 3.5 cents, they are smaller than the average peak [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystem2.html#2 JND] (just-noticeable difference) of human pitch perception, as illustrated by the research of [[Aaron_Andrew_Hunt|Aaron Andrew Hunt]]. It is improbable that even a trained listener would be able to notice these intervals, and as such they a prime target for psychoacoustically informed [[Microtempering|microtempering]]. (However, a considerably larger comma can be unnoticeable in an adaptive tuning context. Instead of one large pitch shift of the entire comma, there can be many small pitch shifts of a fraction of a comma, one per chord change.)

For commas over 100 cents in size, see [[Large commas]]; for commas in between 30 and 100 cents in size, see [[Medium commas]]; and for commas over 3.5 cents in size, see [[Comma|Commas]].

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	'''Unnoticeable commas''' are very small intervals. These commas are called "unnoticeable" because, being equal to or less than 3.5 cents, they are smaller than the average peak [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystem2.html#2 JND] (just-noticeable difference) of human pitch perception, as illustrated by the research of [[Aaron_Andrew_Hunt\|Aaron Andrew Hunt]]. It is improbable that even a trained listener would be able to notice these intervals, and as such they a prime target for psychoacoustically informed [[Microtempering\|microtempering]].		'''Unnoticeable commas''' are very small intervals. These commas are called "unnoticeable" because, being equal to or less than 3.5 cents, they are smaller than the average peak [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystem2.html#2 JND] (just-noticeable difference) of human pitch perception, as illustrated by the research of [[Aaron_Andrew_Hunt\|Aaron Andrew Hunt]]. It is improbable that even a trained listener would be able to notice these intervals, and as such they a prime target for psychoacoustically informed [[Microtempering\|microtempering]]. (However, a considerably larger comma can be unnoticeable in an adaptive tuning context. Instead of one large pitch shift of the entire comma, there can be many small pitch shifts of a fraction of a comma, one per chord change.)

	For commas over 100 cents in size, see [[Large commas]]; for commas in between 30 and 100 cents in size, see [[Medium commas]]; and for commas over 3.5 cents in size, see [[Comma\|Commas]].		For commas over 100 cents in size, see [[Large commas]]; for commas in between 30 and 100 cents in size, see [[Medium commas]]; and for commas over 3.5 cents in size, see [[Comma\|Commas]].