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• Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy - Introduction to tuning systems, based on the Western cents system. Written by Terry Blackburn.
• An Introduction to Historical Tunings - Discusses the development of tuning systems in Medieval Europe.
• Dictionary of Microtonal Music Theory - Dictionary of common terms used in just tuning and equal temperament style tunings.
• Historical Tuning - Includes information on the differences between equal temperament and well temperament and why Bach rejected equal temperament and celebrated well temperament.
• Historical Tunings on the Modern Concert Grand - Tradational tunings of the grand piano and Beethoven's specific tunings.
• Justonic Tuning Inc. - Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time.
• Keyboard temperament analyzer/calculator - Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys.
• Larpis.com - Previously unknown temperament found on the autograph title page of the "Well-Tempered Clavier"; published 2005. Includes explanations and links to scholarly articles.
• Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony - Article by Margo Schulter written in 1998.
• Tantrum - Tool for the study of temperament anomalies.
• The Development of Musical Tuning Systems - The historical development of musical tuning systems from ancient Greek origins to the development of equal temperament.
• World Scale Depository - Construction of a reference center of scale measurements throughout the world.

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