A Guide to Musical Temperament

On keyboard instruments, tuning pure fifth intervals causes octaves to be out—of—tune. A temperament is a system of tuning in which the tuning of the fifths is altered to keep the octaves in—tune, and to allow all notes of the musical scale to be usable. A Guide to Musical Temperament is an introduction to the subject of how the twelve notes of the musical scale are tuned on keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord, clavichord, piano, and organ.

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