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152 - 160 Wardour Street
Soho, London W1F 8YA
England
For nearly two hundred years we have sold upright
13-15 London Street
Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 7AE
England
At the Piano Gallery, we stock a wide range of new
43 Botley Road
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 OBN
England
We are specialists retailer of traditional pianos
87, St. Clements St
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 1AR
England
Unit 15 Wroslyn Road Industrial Estate
Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HZ
England
Buying a piano is a big investment – financially
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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.
