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Originally Posted by bohemian
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This new True Temperament and the wiggle frets won't change the guitar's
inherent sound/tone any better then standard fretting.
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Wouldn't it help for one key though and one key only? For example, the perfect fifth is a 3/2 ratio of 1.5 in the natural scale. In the modern tempered tuning (of which the guitar is based) it's 1.498. This leads to the inherent or implicit intonation problems. The reason why it's 1.498 is because the interval between each semi-tone is 2^(1/12) which gives intervals close to the natural scale while having all the intervals the same which allows the guitar to be transposed easily. If the guitar is set up to have better intonation for a key (say exactly related to the natural scale), then it will sound very nice in that one key, but it won't be able to be transposed at all.