Thomas Donahue's book "A Guide to Musical Temperament" is an excellent book
on the topic and is available from OHS, the web site which is listed below. It
is not a hyper-technical text and is eminently readable.
Regards
Dick Siegel
_http://ohscatalog.stores.yahoo.net/thdogutomute.html_
(http://ohscatalog.stores.yahoo.net/thdogutomute.html)
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