Musical tuning
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In music, there are two common meanings for tuning:
Man turning tuning pegs to tune guitar
Tuning of Sébastien Érard harp using Korg OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner
Wolf interval
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A wolf interval is audibly out of tune within a particular musical tuning system. A common example is the abnormally small fifth that results from the Pythagorean comma.
Musical tuning
…was of primary importance in Western musical development in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. As with nearly all just intonation systems, it has a wolf interval. In the example given, it is the interval between the 729:512 and the 256:243 (F♯ to D♭, if one tunes the 1 / 1 to C). The major and minor thirds are…
Figure 1: The Wicki isomorphic keyboard, invented by Kaspar Wicki in 1896.
Figure 2: The syntonic temperament’s tuning continuum.