Ed, Do you have a sound source for your take on this? Some Chopin in this temperment? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: A440A at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 2/15/2009 11:35:28 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Temperaments >Julia writes: ><< Why are the P5ths tempered in those (C, F & G) commonly used keys, yet >the article states that they should be the most pure keys? Shouldn't it be >the opposite? Namely, the black keys be tempered then? >Am I missing something here? >> > Greetings, > Acoustically, thirds and fifths work in opposition to one another, which >generally means that in the traditional form of well temperament, the keys with >the most highly tempered thirds will have the purest fifths, and the keys with >the purest thirds will have the most highly tempered fifths. It is overly >simplistic to regard a given key as highly tempered or not. > If performed on a well-tempered keyboard, this harmonic contrast can be >heard in Chopin's music, where he often places a pure melodic line above a very >expressive harmony, creating a subtle musical texture that is unavailable in >20th century tuning. >Regards, >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See >yours >in just 2 easy steps! >(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=ht >tp://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26h >mpgID=62%26bcd=febemailfooterNO62)</HTML>
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