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Musical Tunings and Temperaments - Color-coded descriptions of tunings and temperaments from the 9th Century through the 16th Century.
Nigel Taylor's Tuning Page. - Appropriate temperaments for early music and how to tune them.
A Beginner's Guide to Alternative Tunings. - Explains different systems of tuning, including those used in early music. Assumes no prior knowledge of music.
Tuning and Temperament Bibliography - Extensive list of print books, magazines, and journal articles on tuning systems.
JavaTuner - Tunings and temperaments. Demo applet.
Simon Polak - Copies of baroque flutes: pictures; brief history of the flute; information on tuning and temperaments.
Paul Poletti - Maker and restorer of Historical Keyboard Instruments in Utrecht, Netherlands. Includes a history of the piano and a guide to tuning and temperaments.

Wikipedia Articles

Septimal meantone temperament - In music, septimal meantone temperament, also called standard septimal meantone or simply septimal meantone, refers to the tempering of 7-limit musical intervals by a meantone temperament tuning in the range from fifths flattened by the amount of fifths for 12 equal temperament to those as flat as 19 equal temperament, with 31 equal temperament being a more or less optimal tuning for both the 5- and 7-limits. Meantone temperament represents a frequency ...
Meantone temperament - Meantone temperament is a musical temperament, which is a system of musical tuning. In general, a meantone is constructed the same way as Pythagorean tuning, as a chain of perfect fifths, but in a meantone, each fifth is narrowed by the same amount (or equivalently, each fourth widened) in order to make the ...
Schismatic temperament - In music, the schismatic temperament is the result of tempering (musical tuning) the schisma of 32805:32768 to a unison. It is also called the schismic temperament or Helmholtz temperament.
Regular temperament - Regular temperament is any tempered system of musical tuning such that each frequency ratio is obtainable as a product of powers of a finite number of generators, or generating frequency ratios. The classic example of a regular temperament is meantone temperament, where the generating intervals are usually given in terms of a slightly flattened fifth and ...
Musical temperament - In musical tuning, a temperament is a system of tuning which slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation in order to meet other requirements of the system.