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154 High Street
Cardiff, South Glamorgan ll49 9NU
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PianosCymru is an award winning piano dealership in the NorthWest Wales area, we are family firm dating back over
28 years.
266 North Road
Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF14 3BL
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May we offer some advice that may be useful when buying your first, second or twenty-second piano?
St Mellons
Cardiff
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
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Karen is a friendly piano and keyboard teacher with many years of experience. She welcomes pupils of all levels from beginner to grade 8, and has an ...
Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF23 5HZ
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I am a professional Opera singer with Welsh National Opera who teaches singing and piano to all levels and all ages. I focus strongly on technique and...
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Canada Road
Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF14 3BX
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I am a Cardiff based teacher with many years experience working with people of all ages and backgrounds, with one goal... understanding and playing ...
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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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