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2. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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   Tuning to a pitch with one's voice is called matching pitch and is the most basic skill learned in ear training. Turning pegs to increase or decrease the tension on strings so as to control the pitch. Instruments such as the harp, piano, and harpsichord require a wrench to turn the tuning pegs, while others such as the violin can be tuned manually.

3. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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   Construction, Tuning and Care of the Piano-forte (1887) by Edward Quincy Norton; Regulation and Repair of Piano and Player Mechanism, Together with Tuning as Science and Art (1909) by William Braid White; Modern piano tuning and allied arts (1917) by William Braid White (1878–1959) Biddle, Horace Peters (1867). The Musical Scale. Oliver ...

4. Vallotti temperament - Wikipedia

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   This temperament is merely a shifted version of Young's second temperament, which also has six consecutive pure fifths and six tempered by 1 ⁄ 6 of a Pythagorean comma. In Young's second temperament, however, the sequence of tempered fifths starts from the note C, rather than from F, as they do in the temperament today commonly misattributed to Vallotti.

5. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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   Only lowest and highest octaves are shown; tuning of the intervening notes is chromatic. Upright Piano: Grand Piano: Piano, Imperial Grand 249 strings[*] 97 courses. C 0 C ♯ 0 D 0 D ♯ 0 E 0 F 0 F ♯ 0 G 0 G ♯ 0 A 0 A ♯ 0 B 0 [...] *C ♯ 7 D 7 D ♯ 7 E 7 F 7 F ♯ 7 G 7 G ♯ 7 A 7 A ♯ 7 B 7 C 8. Imperial Grand, 290, Bösendorfer ...

6. Electronic tuner - Wikipedia

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   Piano tuners, harp makers and the builders and restorers of early instruments, e.g. harpsichords, use high-end tuners to assist with their tuning and instrument building. Even piano tuners who work mostly "by ear" may use an electronic tuner to tune just a first key on the piano, e. g. the a' to 440 Hz, after which they proceed by means of ...

7. Equal temperament - Wikipedia

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   12 tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.