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Offline slavyanka

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Temperaments
on: December 21, 2007, 01:46:51 PM
Can you identify the temperament by ear when somebody plays a scale for you, and what temperament do you use on your piano?

Offline mcgillcomposer

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Re: Temperaments
Reply #1 on: December 21, 2007, 02:24:43 PM
Can you identify the temperament by ear when somebody plays a scale for you, and what temperament do you use on your piano?
Well, I can certainly distinguish between the commonly used temperaments (mean tone, equal, etc.). If it were another temperament, I would be able to tell, but wouldn't necessarily know what to call it.

As far as I know, for the piano, equal temperament has been the standard for several hundred years... ;)
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Re: Temperaments
Reply #2 on: December 21, 2007, 04:08:26 PM
Are you reffering to 6th 3rd temperments vrs 5th 4th? Or other temperments when you say temperments?

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Reply #3 on: December 21, 2007, 05:19:31 PM
Are you reffering to 6th 3rd temperments vrs 5th 4th? Or other temperments when you say temperments?

I am referring to any of the 5 Pythagorean, 10 Meantone, 5 Modified Meantone, 21 Well, 7 Victorian Well, 13 Quazi-Equal, 1 Equal and 18 Modern Well temperaments that I know of. The question I was thinking of originally, was whether you could distinguish one temperament from another when someone plays two consecutive scales for you. No intervals or chords, just the scales up and down.

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Re: Temperaments
Reply #4 on: December 22, 2007, 09:48:01 PM
Slavyanka, that's fascinating, I had no idea there were so many. Is there a website that explains them all?

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Re: Temperaments
Reply #5 on: December 22, 2007, 10:15:04 PM
slobone

Yes, there is.
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