Article on tunings - mean-tone, equal and sound clips

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I noticed this on the Slate website
http://www.slate.com/id/2250793/pagenum/all/#p2

Book review and a couple of new recordings, with sound clips

"How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care), by professor Ross W. Duffin. This book was written by a madman. Or is he? You should understand: If Duffin is mad, he's not alone. And the spaces between the lines of his book are filled with the silent laughter of the gods.

The gods are laughing at their little joke on musicians. When it comes to the tuning of instruments, especially keyboards and fretted instruments, nature drops a giant hairball in our path. ..."