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    Five-limit tuning, 5-limit tuning, or 5-prime-limit tuning (not to be confused with 5-odd-limit tuning), is any system for tuning a musical instrument...
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    intonation, their harmonic limit may be ambiguous. 3-limit (Pythagorean) tuning Five-limit tuning 7-limit tuning Numerary nexus Otonality and Utonality Tonality...
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    5-limit tuning yields a much larger number of wolf intervals with respect to Pythagorean tuning, which can be considered a 3-limit just intonation tuning. Namely...
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    Just intonation (redirect from Just tuning)
    fifth for purposes of music analysis regardless of its tuning method, for purposes of discussing tuning systems musicologists may distinguish between a perfect...
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    Pythagorean tuning is a broken circle of fifths. This creates two distinct semitones, but because Pythagorean tuning is also a form of 3-limit just intonation...
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    Semantic system (category 5-limit tuning and intervals)
    semantic-53 scale. In five-limit tuning, their ratio is complex, measuring 20000 / 19683, or 3125 / 3072. In seven-limit tuning, they can be more simply...
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  • take a specific alternative name in Pythagorean tuning, five-limit tuning, or meantone temperament tuning systems such as quarter-comma meantone. All the...
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    example, in extended scales produced with five-limit tuning an A♭ tuned as a major third below C5 and a G♯ tuned as two major thirds above C4 are not exactly...
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    most typical and traditional tuning of the five-string small kantele is just intonation arrived at via five-limit tuning, often in Dmajor or Dminor. This...
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    is simply called the diminished third (for further details, see Five-limit tuning § Size of intervals). Some equal temperaments also produce major seconds...
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    S2, S3, S4 are semitones as defined in five-limit tuning#Size of intervals. Notice that for 5-limit tuning, 1⁄6-, 1⁄5-, 1⁄4-, and 1⁄3-comma meantone...
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  • compositions and a tuning system. Despite the conjectural nature of reconstructions of the Hurrian songs, the diatonic nature of the tuning system is demonstrated...
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    to 12-tone equal tuning and to a common five-limit tuning in C: The additional tubing for each valve usually features a short tuning slide of its own...
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    English guitar used a repetitive open-C tuning that approximated a major-thirds tuning. C-C-G-C-E-G This open-C tuning gives the initial harmonic series when...
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  • A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Lists See also 7-limit tuning 15 equal temperament 17 equal temperament 19 equal temperament 22 equal...
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    polyphonic tuning bends and dynamic tuning progressions. If one considers the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum as a string, and individual tunings as beads...
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  • inner and outer diameters. He also constructed a 12-string tuning instrument, with a set of tuning pitch pipes hidden inside its bottom cavity. In 1890, Victor-Charles...
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  • point for comparison, in three-limit tuning the Pythagorean major third is an 81/64 ratio, which is 407.8 cents. A tuning is a choice of pitches in a scale...
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  • Shi'er lü (category 3-limit tuning and intervals)
    ratios (8:9, 16:27, 64:81, etc.). The gamut or its subsets were used for tuning and are preserved in bells and pipes. Unlike the Western chromatic scale...
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    adjust the tuning of all notes except for open strings, and vocal groups, who have no mechanical tuning limitations, sometimes use a tuning much closer...
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    of fine-tuning are naturalistic. First, the fine-tuning might be an illusion: more fundamental physics may explain the apparent fine-tuning in physical...
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  • pseudo-just tuning's notes is shown in video 6 (Dynamic tuning & timbre). Dynamic Tonality enables two new kinds of real-time musical effects: Tuning-based...
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    Among alternative tunings for guitar, a major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which each interval between successive open strings is a major third...
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    53 TET had become the most common form of tuning in Ottoman classical music, replacing its older, unequal tuning. Arabic music, which for the most part bases...
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    Minor third (redirect from 19-limit)
    It is the minor third in Pythagorean tuning. The 32:27 Pythagorean minor third arises in the 5-limit justly tuned major scale between the 2nd and 4th degrees...
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  • septimal meantone, refers to the tempering of 7-limit musical intervals by a meantone temperament tuning in the range from fifths flattened by the amount...
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    In music theory and tuning, a tonality diamond is a two-dimensional diagram of ratios in which one dimension is called the otonality and the other is called...
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  • Pythagorean comma (category 3-limit tuning and intervals)
    Pythagorean comma (531441:524288) on C In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher...
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    Harmonic seventh (category 7-limit tuning and intervals)
    meantone tuning, standard in the Baroque and earlier, the augmented sixth is 965.78 cents – only 3 cents below 7:4, well within normal tuning error and...
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  • musical temperaments; that is, a variety of tuning systems constructed, similarly to Pythagorean tuning, as a sequence of equal fifths, both rising and...
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