Comment #726

2010-03-08T13:04:20Z

Thanks for the research!

Comment #725

2010-03-08T12:21:38Z

Thanks for the link to an informative article. It's great that the web let's you write with musical examples! I tried to investigate your question about tunings, and though I don't know much about "later" tuning developments (I am solidly in Pythagorean lately) it appears that the 12-tone equal tuning as we know it today only became standardized until the 20th century and before then there were still a number of other tunings that made compromises in different ways which resulted in different qualities for each key. So I doubt that they tuned the historic pianos in the equal temperament that we know today. Plus, the old pianos would set off different resonance frequencies and great a sound so different it might sound like something is missing or out of tune.

Comment #724

2010-03-04T19:15:52Z

Hat tip to our friend Margaret formerly of Ithaca for alerting me to this article.

Comment #723

2010-03-04T15:24:32Z

I've fixed the broken link to the article, but not before at least one feedreader grabbed the post, so here it is again: In Search of Lost Sounds

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