sharpens the fourth and flattens the fifth, is that right?

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Gill Smith wrote:
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Compared to what?

Try here to find out more about temperaments and how they sound:

http://pages.globetrotter.net/roule/js/acc.htm

Ian

> sharpens the fourth and flattens the fifth, is that right?

Yep.  Pure fourth (4/3) is 498 cents, ET is 500.  Pure fifth
(3/2) is 702 cents, ET is 700.

Not an easily noticeable difference except when you multiply
them, e.g. tuning a stringed instrument strictly in fourths or
fifths.

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