Deviations from equal temperament in tuning isolated musical intervals

Four music students tuned the frequency of a variable-tone oscillator to set it at given musical intervals up and down from the reference tone of 500 Hz. Pure tones and complex tones were used. Despite the dispersion of the results a general tendency appeared: small intervals were mostly diminished...

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Main Authors: Andrzej RAKOWSKI, Andrzej MIŚKIEWICZ
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2015-07-01
Series:Archives of Acoustics
Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/3137
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description Four music students tuned the frequency of a variable-tone oscillator to set it at given musical intervals up and down from the reference tone of 500 Hz. Pure tones and complex tones were used. Despite the dispersion of the results a general tendency appeared: small intervals were mostly diminished and large intervals mostly enlarged in comparison with their equally-tempered values. No distinct dependence of the size of musical intervals on the sound spectrum could be observed.
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title Deviations from equal temperament in tuning isolated musical intervals
title_full Deviations from equal temperament in tuning isolated musical intervals
title_fullStr Deviations from equal temperament in tuning isolated musical intervals
title_full_unstemmed Deviations from equal temperament in tuning isolated musical intervals
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