meantone

English

Etymology

mean +‎ tone

Noun

meantone (uncountable)

  1. (music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of tempered perfect fifths and, by choosing an appropriate size for major and minor thirds, tempers the syntonic comma to unison.

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