Covering Kent, Sussex and Surrey from stores in Tunbridge Wells and New Haw, and nationally through our website, Brittens Music has been supplying a huge range of instruments, accessories, sheet music and gifts to musicians, students, teachers, schools, events and venues for many years. There are instrument and sheet music specialists on hand, so whether you are looking for something specific, need advice or want to try out an instrument, pop into one of our stores and have a chat.
If you or your child wants to learn to play, Brittens has a very popular instrument rental scheme and music school* that can offer a flexible, low entry-cost solution.
*Our music school teaches how to play most instruments, including; piano and keyboard, violin, viola, cello or bass, guitar and folk instruments, flute, clarinet or saxophone, trumpet, cornet and trombone and, of course percussion… So there’s plenty to choose from!
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Tuning Temperaments
How many piano tuning temperaments are there?
There are countless variations, but most fall within three major categories;
1. Meantone, which generally concentrated the dissonance into a few unusable intervals (often called "wolf" intervals), so that the others could be Just. These are often called "restrictive" tunings, since there are certain intervals that are not usable. Good intervals are really good, bad ones are really bad. The Meantone era was approx. 1400-1700
2. Well-Temperament, which gives more consonance to the most often used keys, and more dissonance to the lesser used ones. Though not equal, these tunings are "non-restrictive" because all intervals can be used. The intervals range from Just to barely acceptable. Well-temperament refers to a genre, not a specific tuning. The Well-Tempered era is approx. 1700-1880.
3. Equal Temperament, which spreads the dissonance equally among all intervals.
There is no difference in consonance or dissonance between any keys, thus, there are no good ones or bad ones. Equal temperament represents a complete average. Dates of its acceptance are debated, but there is ample evidence that it was widely available by 1900 and is the predominate tuning on keyboards, today.
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