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my knowledge of wolf tones comes from learning about the well tempered intonation that was developed in the 1600s. just intonation of keyboards caused some keys to be badly out of tune, and the resulting tones were called wolf tones, for the reason you state. at least that's how I remember it, but it was in college, and I tended to forget things then...
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