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Wikipedia articles

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

11/29/2003 11:48:54 AM

We should consider writing better ones, perhaps using Monzo as a
place to start.

Here's the Wikipedia on temperament:

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperament

Temperament
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In psychology, Temperament is the general nature of an individual's
personality, such as introversion or extraversion, it derives from
the theory of the humours.

In music, Temperament is a system of tuning instruments.

Here is what they have on tuning:

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning

Some of this looks to have felt the hand already of tuning list
members:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenharmonic

With all due respect to anyone here who helped write it, the equal
temperament page needs work, and in fact contains errors:

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament

🔗Carl Lumma <ekin@lumma.org>

11/29/2003 12:07:59 PM

>Here is what they have on tuning:
>
>http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning
>
>Some of this looks to have felt the hand already of tuning list
>members:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenharmonic

Good detective work, Gene!

>With all due respect to anyone here who helped write it, the equal
>temperament page needs work, and in fact contains errors:
>
>http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament

Well, fix them!

-C.