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By: David Sheppard
I first met Paul Chrimes in 1980, when he was tuning the pianos at the school in Brierley Hill, where I began my classroom teaching career. 40 years on, Mr Chrimes has tuned at every school at which I have taught. He has also tuned my pianos at home, as well as those of my students, friends and colleagues. I can say that Mr Chrimes approaches every aspect of his work with care, professionalism and a sense of humour which I can only describe as 'unique'. Like many of the top technicians, Paul is partially sighted but this does not hamper his approach to his work, or his ability to carry out necessary tasks in any way whatsoever. Indeed, I recently discovered Paul lying out out underneath my piano, on his back adjusting the pedal mechanisms.
I would recommend Paul without hesitation, but watch out for his appalling jokes!
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Temperament
Temperament is both the process and result of making slight changes to the pitches of a pure musical scale, so that the octave may be conveniently divided into a usable number of notes and intervals. In the history of Western music's 12-note octave tradition, there have been several, fundamentally different forms of temperament applied to the developing keyboard. Music suffers when performed in a tuning that is different than that which the composer used in its creation.
Well Temperament Keyboards
Well Temperament Keyboards may be tuned so that all keys are musically usable, but contain varying degrees of the "wolf". This is the tuning used in this recording. Between the Early Baroque and Romantic eras, the popular tuning was something between Meantone and Equal Temperament. This era was a brief, transitional stage in temperament history, but considering the music composed during this period, its importance cannot be overlooked. This style of tuning is called "Well Temperament" following the use of the term by J.S. Bach. The term refers to a genre, rather than a specific temperament, as there were many Well Temperaments in use between 1700 and 1825.
