Well temperament

A well temperament is a circulating temperament where the intervals in a class are not all tuned the same. As a consequence of their irregularity, it is possible in extreme cases for well temperaments to have classes where they tune each instance of an interval in that class uniquely, as if they were just scales of the same rank as their cardinality.

• Kirnberger – Kirnberger temperament

1. the fifths are pure, except for
2. the C–G, D–A, G–D and A–E fifths are quarter comma meantone
3. the F#–Db is the wolf fifth, a schisma flat

• Vallotti – Vallotti/Young temperament

1. the fifths are pure, except for
2. the C–G, D–A, E–B, F–C, G–D and A–E fifths are 1/6 Pythagorean comma flat.

• Young2 – Young temperament II
• Werck3 – Werckmeister temperament III
• Cauldron
• Bifrost
• Teleic scales – unit step generator, patent tuning alternating *ed(16/9) and *ed(9/8)
• Kartvelian scales – unit step generator, alternating edf and ed(4/3)

Other scales called "well temperaments"

• Well tempered nonet