twelfth of a Pythagorean comma), and hence one fifth will be flatter by twelve times that, which is (one Pythagorean comma) flatter than a just fifth. A fifth this flat can also be regarded as "howling like a wolf." There are also now eight sharp and four flat major thirds.

Five-limit tuning

Five-limit tuning was designed to maximize the number of pure intervals, but even in this system several intervals are markedly impure. 5-limit tuning

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