source file: m1580.txt
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:08:00 -0600 (CST)

Subject: Re: Siberian temperament

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl wrote:
> I compared it with my scale archive, but found nothing close to it.
> That's not really surprising since well-temperaments with pure fifths
> and a few flattened ones [snip]

I _also_ note that the original message (which I can't seem to lay hands
on right now) described most of the fifths not as just, but
undertempered even for ET, about 1 cent as I recall.  That would spread
the tempering around enough to prevent harmonic waste.

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