This is wonderful. I am baffled that the introduction of equal temperament did not arouse more of an angry response from composers and performers: it robbed the works of so much. Are there no documented efforts to keep the classical tuning? Unfortunately, it appeared at the height of modernism, after WW1, when it truly was 'out with the old'. That probably had a lot to do with it.
@RadfordPiano
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There was a lot of controversy hundreds of years ago about the theory of equal temperament, but it could not be tuned accurately at that time so it was not really anything more than a theory. However, with the introduction of the modern piano, pianos became too difficult for composers and musicians to tune themselves on modern instruments, and so it became a separate craft or art form for piano technicians. So, piano tuners went one way with what they thought was the ‘ideal’ type of tuning, equal temperament, and musicians went another, not really knowing or realizing that this was happening because the changes were so subtle. It was about this time also that piano tuners were able to tune equal temperament for the first time in reality, because they were able to hear and accurately start counting beats which was not possible to tune before, although they may have thought they were tuning it and reality they were probably still tuning classical tunings. Add to that that 20th century music became more atonal, and so relied less on the need for the colors of the keys.
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