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by ivanmaeder 1901 days ago
Here's a version of a piece in just intonation—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA

—and "modern" equal temperament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbi-7tPaqo

As much as people describe just intonation as pure, etc, at least in this example it just sounds wrong to me.

As far as I understand, just intonation requires instruments to be tuned differently for different keys and stops "working" if a piece strays from the key (which music from Bach's time will often do).

Equal temperament is our workaround for the physics which doesn't quite match the 12-tone system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament