Equal Temperament

[David Love]

Here we go again.

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: February 20, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: Equal Temperament


> "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
>
>
>