Hi Justin,
I'll mainly defer to the experts other than commenting that to first
order western orchestras have to use some reasonable facsimile of equal
tempered tuning (i.e. to play with instruments like piano and make the
modulations required of most orchestral scores there's not much choice).
But I've heard from string players with perfect pitch that it's ever so
slightly painful to play with piano as they can discern the compromises
inherent in equal temperament. It'd be interesting to hear what e.g.
string quartets do re. tuning. I'd assume that usually they can't stray
to far from equal temperament re. the issue of modulation but maybe they
come up with some sort of alternative.
>Karl, Phil and everyone
>It is interesting about the different pitches and
>different scales. And so, what are western orchestras
>generally tuned to? The even tempered scale? Or just?
>Or what? And shakuhachi too, what are they tuned to? I
>know some peole take great care to tune the holes of
>the shakuhachi. The shading and meris are up to the
>player of course, but how about the holes themselves?
>I know some people tune to the even tempered scale,
>but is it the same for all the top Japanese makers?
>And what about the traditional Japanese music - how
>about Koto. What do they tune to? Are there microtonal
>differences between the different (Japanese)
>traditional genres even?
> Best wishes
> Justin.
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