THE VIDEO SHELF · musical tuning systems
Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament
A short demonstration comparing just intonation with equal temperament, played so you can hear how the tuning compromise changes intervals and chords. It includes a Bach prelude played in both tunings.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as a quick audible demonstration of the errors that equal temperament introduces compared with pure intervals.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Trippin' on Cookies
- Topic
- musical tuning systems
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This looks neat. I wish I could try it on my iPad. There is a lot of interesting mathematics behind music. I particularly enjoy reading about different temperaments, which are our attempts to compromise between just intonation (the harmonic-based scales the article mentions, which ostensibly …
baddox on Hacker News · 2014-09
In Musical Scale GeneratorWith equal temperament you actually don't modulate precisely, so there is always weird disharmonic sound every single time. As I said, for some electronic music subgenres it's a welcome feature; it would shock classical composers if they ever heard such a version though. Have you …
bitL on Hacker News · 2017-11
In Show HN: Chord Progressions
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