Talk:Meantone family

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Errors in edolists

The edolists are very flawed. How is 53edo a dominant meantone?! PiotrGrochowski (info, talk, contribs) 15:59, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Typo in Septimal Meantone section?

In the Septimal Meantone section, it says that nine fifths are needed to reach the interval for 7, C ~ A#. I count ten fifths, and so does the Wikipedia article on Septimal Meantone Temperament.

Caption text
Note Fifthspan
C 0
G 1
D 2
A 3
E 4
B 5
F# 6
C# 7
G# 8
D# 9
A# 10

Edit: And the table in the Meantone vs Meanpop page also says ten fifths for C - A#.
Are we missing something?
Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 02:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

It seems like an error indeed, good catch. --Fredg999 (talk) 04:59, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Sharptone?

Still trying to figure out why sharptone exists as a septimal extension to meantone, when the only EDO it seems to really work for (that is, without a 'd' wart) is 5EDO, and then the other equal temperaments listed under it are 12d and 7d (the latter being way over on the flat end of the usable meantone tuning spectrum); meanwhile, Dominant also works for 5EDO, since B♭ is enharmonic to A in n5EDO. Seems like this name should have been saved for a more useful subset of the sharp approximate half of the meantone tuning spectrum. Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 12:04, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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