Equal temperament’s added beats made mutation stops unfashionable until early-music revivalism.

Evidence

Equal tempered tuning thus colors with beats the desired effect of adding mutation stops, and therefore the inclusion of mutation stops tended to go out of fashion with the introduction of equal temperament tuning (Padgham, 1986). Recent movements to revive the performance of authentic early music have extended to the pipe organ, and the resulting use of nonequal tempered tuning systems and inclusion of more mutation stops is giving new life, particularly to contrapuntal music. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1562

Categorization

• XREF: Links tuning-system history to instrument design and historically informed performance practice — a cross-domain thread from acoustics into musicology. — connects to: Equal temperament tuning made organ mutation stops sound beaty and unfashionable; Equal temperament’s beats caused mutation stops to fall out of use
• SEED: Angle: ‘How a mathematical compromise killed an entire family of organ stops, and the revivalists who brought them back.‘

Broader Connections

• Equal temperament tuning made organ mutation stops sound beaty and unfashionable #corroborates (1.00)
• Equal temperament’s beats caused mutation stops to fall out of use #corroborates (1.00)