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well-tempered

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Adjective

  1. good-humoured, pleasant, having an even temperament
  2. Having twelve notes per octave of the standard instrument tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and the resulting sound will not sound perceptibly too far out of tune.

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