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by contravariant 3160 days ago
Depends what you mean by "out of tune". How good a chord sounds is determined by the ratio of frequencies, not if all the notes fit 'perfectly' in some scale. In fact you can't even create a scale where all chords are perfectly in tune.
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all tuning is relative, of course, but my comment is thinking about singers or horn players that play consistently sharp, for example.