![]() ![]() Not that we don't like this, we're now pretty used to it. But the intervals don't sound as good (in the sense of being pure), which can be not the best for polyphonic music (Bach style). Jazz would sound awful in any other temperament. It's particularly good for music with chromatic scales, atonal pieces, and so on. I'd go as far as to say it's probably the best way we know. Yes, equal temperament is a good way to solve the problem. On the bright side, my piano can be always "tuned" right now (and by "tuning" I mean "equal temperament", or any other temperament provided I learn how to do that lol). I thought that tuning pianos was a good skill to have as a piano player, but now I'll never be the same again :( Because now I can see how imperfect it is. And what we do today in particular is "nah, screw pure intervals, we're gonna have equal distances between the intervals so that the semitones are all the same distance from each other" (basically, read that as spreading the wolf throughout all the intervals, with the exception of the octave). Because of the wolf, what temperaments do is spread the wolf in a way that we don't notice it much (or not, some just leave it hidden somewhere). No kind of temperament can really fix the problem though. By the way, Bach wrote the Well Tempered Clavier to show that composting and performing in Well Temperament was feasible. By the late baroque (Bach's time) they were widely used. What they did was virtually to spread the wolf between more intervals instead of just one. Then Well Temperaments started being developed to fix this problem. But playing in other keys far from G in this example would show the "wolf" interval, and that was something we wanted to hide usually. Until the early baroque, pianos were tuned to sound good in one key, let's say G major. If they're all perfect and pure you end up with a "wolf" interval (a really out of tune pair of notes), this or the octave will be really wide, which is unacceptable to our ears. And I want them to be perfect and pure, but they can't all be perfect and pure (and we know that since the time of the ancient Greeks). Now I know this, all I can hear are the open fourths, the closed fifths. What we do to them today is to "tune" them using something called "equal temperament". ![]() The hard truth is pianos can't be tuned, not perfectly that is. See reddit's content policy for more examples of unwelcome content. commenting on someone's appearance), and the like, are not welcome and will be removed. Comments that contain personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, unnecessarily derogatory or inflammatory remarks or inappropriate remarks (e.g. If you're unsure if your post will be considered spam, please contact the moderators before posting.īe nice to each other. Spam includes posting too frequently, posting mainly links to your blog / Youtube channel, low-content blog posts, etc. No spam, advertising, low-content blog posts, etc. No generic piano music videos / playlists. ![]() Very basic theory/song/other tutorials are better suited to /r/learnmusic. The amount of Synthesia "tutorials" or beginner song tutorials we get is too much and would overtake the subreddit if we allowed them. No basic tutorials or Synthesia "tutorials". Please provide as much information as possible to foster good discussion. Pictures lacking context or details are subject to removal. Low-effort and meme image posts are better suited to /r/classicalmemes, /r/pianomemes, or /r/musicpics. No low-effort images, memes, jokes, or context-less images. If the FAQ doesn't answer your question, you can ask your question as a comment in the 'No Stupid Questions' post.
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