meantone

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Etymology

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From mean +‎ tone.

Noun

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meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)

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  1. (music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.

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