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- How do you tune a piano to equal temperament?
- What is temperament musical tuning?
- How out of tune is equal temperament?
- What is a tempered keyboard?
How do you tune a piano to equal temperament?
The term temperament refers to a tuning system that allows intervals to beat instead of tuning pure or "just intervals". In equal temperament, for instance, a fifth would be tempered by narrowing it slightly, achieved by flattening its upper pitch slightly, or raising its lower pitch slightly.
What is temperament musical tuning?
In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. ... Tempering is the process of altering the size of an interval by making it narrower or wider than pure.
How out of tune is equal temperament?
One of those tunings was already known to the ancients: equal temperament. Here the poison is distributed equally through the system: The distance between each interval is mathematically the same, so each interval is equally in, and slightly out of, tune. Nothing is perfect; nothing is terrible.
What is a tempered keyboard?
Origins. As used in the 17th century, the term "well tempered" meant that the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard were tuned in such a way that it was possible to play music in all major or minor keys that were commonly in use, without sounding perceptibly out of tune.
