Talk:Musical temperament

A Proposal
I think this article is the best place to add the details relating to the adjustment of pitch in western band and orchestra instruments from equal temperment to just temperment. Western college students are taught cents to make these adjustments. The article would help band and orchestra students learn when and why they need to adjust their pitch of individual notes upward or downward as a function of the key they are presently playing in.

I would like to add a section Just termperment and equal tempermant that would include a table of cents adjustments, and a tutorial for its use.

Alternatively, a separate article could be made, or it might be added as an application use in the cents article.

Mbbradford 21:25, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

2 is somewhat more special than 3 or 5 but not infinitely so
Are there any temperaments in use that adjust the octave, {instead of/as well as} the fifth or the third, to improve the worst of them? &mdash;Tamfang 05:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, but they're a bit more rare. Check out at the bottom of equal temperament. You should find the Bohlen-Pierce scale, and Wendy Carlos' alpha/beta scales as a couple of examples. - Rainwarrior 05:41, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Unequal Temperaments book and website
Dear friends,

The Unequal Temperaments book of 1978 was described-in writing-as the definitive reference on the matter by authorities such as John Barnes, Hubert Bédard, Kenneth Gilbert, Igor Kipnis, Rudolf Rasch and others. In the 1990's I also developed the first professional-grade temperament spreadsheets.

Eventually I setup the "Unequal Temperaments" website, where I uploaded some updated information and then announced the new version of Unequal Temperaments 2008/2009. (Please note that the website does NOT sell the book). The book has received recently (Oct. 2009) a favourable review by the British Clavichord Society quarterly publication.

I find that for the benefit of Wikipedia readers my new book should be mentioned, or at least my website included among External Links:


 * Unequal Temperaments website, with Preview of the new 2008 book by Claudio Di Veroli

Kind regards

Claudio

Dr. * Claudio Di Veroli [[Special:Contributions/86.42.128.58|86.42.128.58] (talk) 17:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Post edit remarks
More detailed support for major edit and suggestions for possible further edits or revert+edits Specialists may find some technical error of which I am not aware, or, alternatively, the explanation in terms of wave form might more properly follow a paragraph elaborating on the musical utility of temperament. I propose that at some point a separate article develope with a title along the lines of Physics of Temperatment and that can be linked from the general article Musical temperament. This way, people who are inclined to understand this widely misunderstood topic from the perspective of wave forms etcetera will have a whole separate article. Also, I must be the first to confess that the explanation in those terms needs a graphic support and also there should be links in there to copyrighted explanations by professional textbook writers. One does what one can, and passes the torch to the next wikepedian...c'est la vie. Wikidgood (talk) 23:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you seen Music and mathematics? —Tamfang (talk) 05:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Kind of Heavily Relies on Jargon Without Clear Explanation for Non-specialists; Also to Express Support for Proposal
It would be nice to have hypertext to an article which explains some of the technical terminology, particularly in the first paragraph the terms:harmonic timbres, or tones with harmonic partials. This is a vast topic and although it is nice to have a succinct article it seems that quite a bit more can be said, agreed, please go forward with info on equal/just temperaments. Might eventually need to be split into a separate article. Is that topic the main priority, I wonder, for proceeding with this main article or is there a gap, a more pressing subtopic which warrants treatment? At any rate, looking forward to the contribution suggested by Mbbradford; I added a title to your post so now we have a table of contents, please feel free to modify the title if you so desire. Wikidgood (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Personal Essay
The bulk of this article as it stands is unreferenced and written in a chatty personal style inapproprate to Wikipedia. Really it needs a very heavy trimming.Frank Zamjatin (talk) 14:10, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Beating
The word "beating" is used several times in the Meantone and Well sections, but never described or defined. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimHardy (talk • contribs) 07:41, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I found it. Jim Hardy (talk) 07:45, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Digital Pianos
On some digital pianos from CASIO you can choose from the following temperaments: 00 Equal Temperament, 01 Pure Major, 02 Pure Minor, 03 Pythagorean, 04 Kirnberger 3, 05 Werckmeister, 06 Mean-Tone, 07 Rast, 08 Bayati, 09 Hijaz, 10 Saba, 11 Dashti, 12 Chahargah, 13 Segah, 14 Gurjari Todi, 15 Chandrakauns, 16 Charukashi. On som digital pianos from YAMAHA you can choose from the following temperaments: 1 Equal temperament, 2 Pure Major, 3 Pure Minor, 4 Pythagorean, 5 Meantone, 6 Werckmeister, 7 Kirnberger. From manuals from the two makers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.223.9.100 (talk) 13:25, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

To add to article
To add to this article: mention of the Rameau temperament. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 20:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Broken SVG
The SVG appears broken at least for me on Microsoft Edge on macOS: Theone256 (talk) 10:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * And in Firefox on MacOS. —Tamfang (talk) 20:03, 22 April 2024 (UTC)