: How to find music outside the 12TET system What are some cultures or bands that don't use the 12TET system and where can I find their music?

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Expanding on @ggcg : That European music is absolutely 12TET-oriented is a notion that is not accurate

Practice

Violin intonation recommendation default pythagorean adjust chords towards just

Beethoven

Waldstein's third mvt. has, I believe, 17 bars with the pedal to be held down. Try this on a ET and it will quickly turn to a blur. Performed on a Young or Vallotti, it becomes an orchestral landscape
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I can assent to this (almost) – I don't have access to a Valloti/Young tuning – but with Werckmeister or Kirnberger one can keep the pedal depressed as Beethoven indicates which is messy with ET.

Current trends

Equal temperament "destroys everything"
Note 100% western setting

History misunderstood

Bach did not promote Equal temperament

Notation

Staff notation is not ET but closer to meantone ie there is one notion of whole tone (unlike Just's two) but C# is not 'spelt' same as Db. A pure 12 TET notation would be like midi numbers!