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By: Robert Tolle
We have been having lessons with Clare for over a year and my 2 children have really enjoyed learning with her - she encourages them to practise lots and they're happy to do so. She has a really positive demeanour, and she has instilled a level of confidence in them that I haven't seen before - I'm really impressed with the progress they've both made in such a short amount of time.
Arranging lessons with HPT was really easy and the service they provide has always been polite, efficient and professional - I can't recommend them highly enough. I find the lessons to be surprisingly affordable considering the level of service and quality of teachers (Clare is just fantastic!), and with other schools we have paid a lot more.
Keep up the good work!
Hampstead, London
England
Experienced piano teacher and accompanist
Great Harwood, Lancashire
England
I teach piano & violin from my own home in Great
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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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