Hello, thank you for listening! I used Abel natural felt on WNG shanks/flanges. I did hybrid stringing with Roslau and Paulello wire and Arledge bass strings.
Thank you very much! In short, if beatless (still) fifths are tuned on a piano which are a 2:3 ratio in frequency, by the time you go through all 12 keys on the piano there will be around a quarter tone error and the octaves won’t sound pure, or beatless. In fact, they would be unusable. For this reason, certain notes need to be “tempered” or compromised. Equal temperament is the “normal” tuning method today which takes the error and equally distributes it between all 12 notes. This means that all 12 tones are *equally* out of tune. Prior to the 20th century, they generally viewed the solution to distributing the error differently. They would put more error in some places and less in others. This translated to certain keys being more in tune, others less and from this, various moods were associated with specific keys. C was innocent, F calm, D triumphant, etc. Fm the key of the grave, Ebm of extreme grief- the ghost key. Many people are not even aware that intervals are “beating” at different rates since equal temperament somewhat homogenizes the differences. However, when the piano is tuned to an unequal temperament, these beat rates become more pronounced and can contribute to the mood of the music in a meaningful way. I hope this clarifies a little.
Sounds really crisp 👌 👏
sounds quite good
Nice to hear this. Saw a few your restoration updates on FB. What hammers/strings did you use?
Hello, thank you for listening! I used Abel natural felt on WNG shanks/flanges. I did hybrid stringing with Roslau and Paulello wire and Arledge bass strings.
Lovely! What does unequal temperament mean?
Thank you very much! In short, if beatless (still) fifths are tuned on a piano which are a 2:3 ratio in frequency, by the time you go through all 12 keys on the piano there will be around a quarter tone error and the octaves won’t sound pure, or beatless. In fact, they would be unusable. For this reason, certain notes need to be “tempered” or compromised. Equal temperament is the “normal” tuning method today which takes the error and equally distributes it between all 12 notes. This means that all 12 tones are *equally* out of tune. Prior to the 20th century, they generally viewed the solution to distributing the error differently. They would put more error in some places and less in others. This translated to certain keys being more in tune, others less and from this, various moods were associated with specific keys. C was innocent, F calm, D triumphant, etc. Fm the key of the grave, Ebm of extreme grief- the ghost key. Many people are not even aware that intervals are “beating” at different rates since equal temperament somewhat homogenizes the differences. However, when the piano is tuned to an unequal temperament, these beat rates become more pronounced and can contribute to the mood of the music in a meaningful way.
I hope this clarifies a little.