Dr. Joseph Farrell - The Alchemy of Zero Point (Pt. 1 of 2: Particle Waves & Harmonic Scales)
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Did Bach Really Use the Balaman Temperament?
The scale, the tempering scale that we are used to listening to now is the fully equally tempered scale. The reason that that arose was when they started mass production of pianos in the nineteenth century and other keyboard instruments. But if you go back to the eighteenth century, j s bach, or hayden, or mozart, or buxtehuta, or people like this, there were several different tempering systems that would allow you to modulate keys. Bach himself kind of invented one of these systems, o the bach leman temperament. And yo go on line, on to yu tube, and listen to pieces of music like beethoven's moon
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