Talk:Temperament ordinaire

When Rousseau writes about widened fifths, this must be in relation to the "ordinary" fifths, wich is narrow. He starts of by saying that you have to tune narrow, and then he says that you have to tune wider [than narrow].

In a world where mean tone is still well known by most musicians, a pure fifth would sound very wide. For us early string players, a pure fifth sounds very wide after playing some years in mean tone and quater comma based circular temperaments, and even when encountering the less historically informed harpsichordists and organists still using Valotti, the fifths sound very wide and the thirds very out of tune, even in the "good" keys.

Problematic article
It seems like this whole article is a synthesis of original research, both of which are insufficient criteria for inclusion in WP. I'm not proposing removal, but it will take a lot of work to make this a good WP article. Does anyone have any good modern sources that discuss the historical or modern usage of this term? / ninly ( talk ) 19:55, 2 August 2011 (UTC)