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Topic: Piano in Just Intonation |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Ian Rae
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Posted 21 Sep 2017 12:44 pm |
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That is how early keyboard instruments like the spinet and clavichord would have been tuned. We regard them as feeble compared with a modern piano, but their sonority depended on the harmonics of one note reinforcing those of another, a benefit we have lost with ET.
Many years ago I experimented with a cheap electronic organ, the kind that has twelve individual oscillators which can be easily adjusted by tweaking the ferrite core in a coil. By tuning the white notes to a scale of C in natural intervals and then the black notes to the closer-to-home pitches - C#, Eb, F#, G# and Bb - again by ear, I entered a world of unbelievable sonority as long as I stuck to the chords that it could spell. (C#, F and G# do not give you Db, believe me!) 
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2017 5:01 pm
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Many (most?) electronic keyboard instruments let you choose temperaments from a list. For example my old Yamaha P-80 :
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Ian Rae
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Posted 22 Sep 2017 4:43 am
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| Many (most?) electronic keyboard instruments let you choose temperaments from a list. |
The one I was dealing with let you choose screwdrivers from a box. But it was 1973 
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 23 Sep 2017 8:10 am
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That was the real man's way, one often difficult to return to what it came from.
As a tuner I'd never venture beyond the tyranny of ET. Tuners are such squares.
I think Ian is right about the trade-off of sonorities.
So his E's aren't at 440? |
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b0b
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