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This interval has serious implications for the various Tuning schemes of the Chromatic Scale , because in Western music, 12 Perfect Fifths and seven octaves are treated as the same interval. Equal Temperament , today the most common tuning system used in the West, gets around this problem by flattening each fifth by a twelfth of a Pythagorean comma (2 cents), thus giving perfect octaves. Another interval of similar size is the Syntonic Comma . See also Pythagorean Tuning and Schisma . EXTERNAL LINK |
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