equal temperament
Americannoun
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But it also loses in the process a richness, making me wonder what might have happened were it played in a more acoustically natural equal temperament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2017
He had tuned his harpsichord not to the relatively smooth, equal temperament of modern times, he explained, but to a “severe” mean-tone temperament used in the early 17th century.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2017
Meanwhile there was no such thing back then as equal temperament.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2016
Soon he challenged the system of equal temperament that has dominated Western music for centuries.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2016
A piano tuner works by listening to and timing these beats, rather than by being able to "hear" equal temperament intervals precisely.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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