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Steinway & Sons Ltd

Steinway Hall
44 Marylebone Lane
Marylebone, London
England

For 150 years, Steinway has been dedicated to the ideal of making the finest pianos in the world. We would like to offer our professional piano moving...

Bluthner Piano Centre

10 Portman Square,
Baker Street,
Marylebone, London W1H 6AZ
England

Blüthner Pianos in LondonSince 1853, Blüthner pianos have been exclusively manufactured in Leipzig, Germany and to this day, the Blüthner family of...

Bluthner Piano Centre Limited

6 Baker Street,
Marylebone, London W1U 3AA
England

Practice in a comfortable, quite spacious, sound-proof room on a professional grand piano only minutes from the heart of Central London. Book a room ...

London Piano Centre

6 Baker Street
Marylebone, London W1U 3AA
England

London's finest piano education, taught by active concert pianists.

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Did You Know Piano Facts



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. r.