• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    i think that long ago pianos and piano-like objects were tuned to a common key just intonation, which quite unlike our modern equal tunings mean some keys are very in tune and others are very not in tune. that would mean that someone composing on piano would hear these sorts of differences quite literally. so, that said, b minor.

    • read_freire [they/them]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Was about to say, feel like shit just want unequal temperment back.

      It was actually the advent of the piano that got us equal temperment tho

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        say it anyway. the workers of the world could engineer a piano that allows independent tuning of individual strings, simply because it would be beautiful. kind of surprised i haven't heard of that actually, i guess most people would rather get an electronic piano at that point.... idk i think a self-tuning, tunable piano would slap.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah that's accurate. I'm surprised how kind some of these descriptions are. A lot of these keys would sound like garbage.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Charpentier's tunings were probably closer to a well-temperament rather than a just-temperament so he could modulate more easily, though probably one different from Bach's (who himself varied temperament depending on things like the construction of the organ/harpsichord/piano)

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        oh that's interesting. anyway, i think sibelius also had opinions about the character of the different keys, and probably some others. just-temperament is just too interesting not to bring up.