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> George Secor wrote :
> The French term _temperament ordinaire_ is commonly used for this > sort of tuning, but IMO the worst thirds can get a bit extreme.
>
> After 40 years of working on various kinds of circulating > temperaments, I've come up with a temperament extraordinaire (a > term Margo Schulter and I independently coined for something we > like better than _temperaments ordinaires_) in which the fifths are > all tempered less than 5 cents, major thirds do not exceed 11:14, > and the major and minor triads are all proportional-beating. See > the last half of this message:
> /tuning/topicId_88708.html#88894
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> A key sentence in that message is that "there are now 6 major > triads with the major 3rd tempered less than 8 cents" (Bb, F, C, G, > D, and A); 2 others (Eb and E) sound similar to 12-equal, 2 others > (Ab and B) like Pythagorean, and the remaining two (F# and C#) pay > the dues. You may not want to play a piece in the key of F# or C# > major, but OTOH those triads won't howl at you like they do in Eb-> to-G# meantone. I dare you to put this tuning on a baroque organ > (for testing, a synthetic one will do) and see if it doesn't knock > your socks off.

Hahaha ! Hi George, that's the origin of this famous "temperament extraordinaire" then ? No wonder that I have been searching it in baroque music history in vain !
But very good and explicit name indeed ! So it's clear now, thanks.
I love them and I have committed in some too !
(not surprising for a "french temperament maker" :-D)
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Jacques