Ed Nice Job Dale Tell them that ET has all notes separated by the 12th root of 2, (dividing the octave into 12 parts). Each key signature has identical amounts of dissonance. All major keys have the same harmonic content, as do the minor keys, differing only in their pitch centers. Tell them it is a way to erase all the harmonic differences between the keys, and that it is a tuning perfectly suited to the music composed upon it, (1900 and later). Tell them that it is a tuning based on a mathematical concept, and arose as a result of factory standardization. It is like off-the-rack clothing, designed to fit as broad a range of users without being optimum for any of them. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061218/87e3b2de/attachment.html
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