Off standard tuning is a thing that most digital pianos do very well, though there is hot controversy over playing a digital piano, or even whether it deserves to be taken as a serious musical instrument. (I had great success using one in a church, piped over a decent PA system.) One could invest in two acoustic pianos, one tuned at concert pitch, one lower, allowing both to stabilize to their pitch and their environment.
No, a tuning is a combination of the temperament, the octaves and the unisons, in other words the whole piano, tuned or centered around a particular pitch, whether it be 432, 440 or any other designated pitch.
What hertz did js Bach use? Will tuning my piano at the appropriate hertz make it sound more like a Pianoforte of thet time period? Will it have more voice vs Singing? I realy appreciate the way uou explain things! Thank you.
Pitch wasn't standardized at that time, and could vary a lot from town to town, so no one really knows what pitch Bach used. Most early music ensembles use 415 nowadays for period instruments such as harpsichords and fortepianos, but it's not standardized. Modern pianos have a cast iron plate to hold a higher tension of the strings, that harpsichords and fortepianos did not, so I guarantee that if you tune it to 415 your piano will not sound like a fortepiano, and will not like the way your piano sounds.
Tuning forks were in common use, although the pitch in early eras were probably all over the place from town to town, so we don't really know for sure. Many musicians and music theorists often wrote down tuning patterns and opined significantly on acceptable tuning methods, best practices and theories, so there is a written record to some extent.
@@RadfordPiano Obviously tuning patterns and methods have nothing to do with basic pitch; those are for finding relative pitch. We don't know. 432 is nonsense. That's the first thing to know before making your piano incompatible with every other modern instrument.
@@TheAntibozowell, most of modern instruments like guitars, bass, flute and so on can be easily tuned in 2 minutes. When I lived in India, most of traditional instruments were tuned to 432
Anything under a435 is tolerable for me. Anymore and it becomes fatiguing to the ear very quickly. If you really wanted to get technical, 430.65hz is the mathemically correct pitch
Very helpful, thank you.
Off standard tuning is a thing that most digital pianos do very well, though there is hot controversy over playing a digital piano, or even whether it deserves to be taken as a serious musical instrument. (I had great success using one in a church, piped over a decent PA system.) One could invest in two acoustic pianos, one tuned at concert pitch, one lower, allowing both to stabilize to their pitch and their environment.
if my understanding is correct, since 432 is not a tuning, you would refer to a tuning as A= x ammount of hz and the temperament used?
No, a tuning is a combination of the temperament, the octaves and the unisons, in other words the whole piano, tuned or centered around a particular pitch, whether it be 432, 440 or any other designated pitch.
What hertz did js Bach use? Will tuning my piano at the appropriate hertz make it sound more like a Pianoforte of thet time period? Will it have more voice vs Singing? I realy appreciate the way uou explain things! Thank you.
Pitch wasn't standardized at that time, and could vary a lot from town to town, so no one really knows what pitch Bach used. Most early music ensembles use 415 nowadays for period instruments such as harpsichords and fortepianos, but it's not standardized. Modern pianos have a cast iron plate to hold a higher tension of the strings, that harpsichords and fortepianos did not, so I guarantee that if you tune it to 415 your piano will not sound like a fortepiano, and will not like the way your piano sounds.
How do we know what the pitch was in past eras?
Tuning forks were in common use, although the pitch in early eras were probably all over the place from town to town, so we don't really know for sure. Many musicians and music theorists often wrote down tuning patterns and opined significantly on acceptable tuning methods, best practices and theories, so there is a written record to some extent.
@@RadfordPiano Obviously tuning patterns and methods have nothing to do with basic pitch; those are for finding relative pitch. We don't know. 432 is nonsense. That's the first thing to know before making your piano incompatible with every other modern instrument.
@@TheAntibozowell, most of modern instruments like guitars, bass, flute and so on can be easily tuned in 2 minutes. When I lived in India, most of traditional instruments were tuned to 432
@@MrKikalo Traditional instruments in India don't even use 12EDO so it really isn't comparable.
Was expecting more woo in the comments section 😊
Anything under a435 is tolerable for me. Anymore and it becomes fatiguing to the ear very quickly. If you really wanted to get technical, 430.65hz is the mathemically correct pitch