6:51 A professional piano tuner would probably be less liable for consumer misunderstandings if they just tuned equal temperament to A440. Then there would be no legal misunderstanding in the implied contract for services and it would be near impossible for any customer to dispute the quality of services rendered. Once everyone got "used to hearing" pianos tuned in that manner, that would only reinforce the legal security for the piano tuner that equal temperament tuning provided in the commercial marketplace.
We forget that in 1917 the Piano enjoyed a status in the home that is similar to the home computer today or the stereo hi-fi system in the 1960's In those years, hundreds of thousands of pianos were manufactured and sold. It was a booming business.
This is simply backwards. The real, that is just or 5/4, major third, is actually smaller than the equal tempered major third, and the just minor third, 6/5, is larger. The same goes for meantone temperament.
@Fr0mTheBlind I applaud anyone wanting to use different scales- I do so myself. But what he says about them, historically, is simply not correct, and if any intervals can be considered "pure", it must be the just intervals, such as the triad 4/5/6, not the Greek scales, which were way more complex.
True, those wide major thirds and narrow minor thirds, but apparently, although I don't get the entire context, the topic seems to be about 7 limit intervals explained by archytas' enharmonic scale.
WOW, We need two dimensional keyboards to play all these subtle harmonic inflections. No wonder guitar players bend their blues strings -- to get the "correct" tuned interval. Thanks for your scholarship.
Fascinating talk. Thanks for uploading.
thanks! very informative video!
6:51 A professional piano tuner would probably be less liable for consumer misunderstandings if they just tuned equal temperament to A440. Then there would be no legal misunderstanding in the implied contract for services and it would be near impossible for any customer to dispute the quality of services rendered. Once everyone got "used to hearing" pianos tuned in that manner, that would only reinforce the legal security for the piano tuner that equal temperament tuning provided in the commercial marketplace.
We forget that in 1917 the Piano enjoyed a status in the home that is similar to the home computer today or the stereo hi-fi system in the 1960's In those years, hundreds of thousands of pianos were manufactured and sold. It was a booming business.
A PROFESSIONAL PIANO TECHNICIAN ALWAYS TUNES IN EQUAL TEMPERAMENT AT A440. SOME USE THE TERM,. JUST TEMPERAMENT.
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This is simply backwards. The real, that is just or 5/4, major third, is actually smaller than the equal tempered major third, and the just minor third, 6/5, is larger. The same goes for meantone temperament.
@Fr0mTheBlind I applaud anyone wanting to use different scales- I do so myself. But what he says about them, historically, is simply not correct, and if any intervals can be considered "pure", it must be the just intervals, such as the triad 4/5/6, not the Greek scales, which were way more complex.
True, those wide major thirds and narrow minor thirds, but apparently, although I don't get the entire context, the topic seems to be about 7 limit intervals explained by archytas' enharmonic scale.
WOW, We need two dimensional keyboards to play all these subtle harmonic inflections. No wonder guitar players bend their blues strings -- to get the "correct" tuned interval. Thanks for your scholarship.
sounds amazingly awful.
I think only the centre string has been retuned and the other strings sound at the first moment of the blow
Microtonal composer Kyle Gann credits both those books, too
This would have been so much easier with some crappy midi keyboard and a laptop with a variable pitch shifting program.
I actually felt panicky when he played the Funeral March on the mean-tempered piano. Freaky.
Those small minor thirds and large major thirds don't sound very good to me.
MINOR THIRDS ARE NOT USED BY PROFESSIONLS
In Europe we have graduated to EQUAL TEMPERAMENT.