"The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century, when the modern keyboard was given perfect musical symmetry through a tuning of equal temperament, each pitch reliably equidistant from the ones that precede and follow it. This tuning allows a musical pattern begun on one note to be duplicated when starting on any other; it creates a musical universe in which the relationships between tones are reliably, uniformly consistent - a universe of greatly expanded possibility, one that allowed Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and all those who followed to compose the piano music we listen to today." 2001 Stuart Isacoff Editor-in-Chief Piano Today (inside cover of a book titled "Temperament - the idea that solved music's greatest riddle") Let's see one of you guys or gals sell this dude one of them thar historical temperament tunings! Wow! Terry Farrell
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