An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which every pair of adjacent notes has an identical frequency ratio. As pitch is perceived roughly as the logarithm of frequency, this means that the perceived `distance` from every note to its nearest neighbor is the same for every note in the system. In equal temperament .....
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in music, a tuning system in which the octave is divided into 12 semitones of equal size. Because it enables keyboard instruments to play in all keys ... [6 related articles]
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A way of tuning the diatonic scale such that all semitones are identical in size. Allows instruments to play in any key (and bells of a given note to be tuned to the same frequency whatever their position in the peal). Contrast with just tuning and meantone temperament.
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In music, an equal temperament is that in which the variations from mathematically true pitch are distributed among all the keys alike.
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A system for dividing an octave into 12 pitch steps, each of 100 cents. This has the effect of making all semitones equal in size. This became necessary once keyboard and fretted instruments became popular. It should be understood that the note A which appears in F# minor should have a slightly different frequency from the note A which appears in C...
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noun the division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones; `equal temperament is the system commonly used in keyboard instruments`
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the division of an octave into 12 equal semitones, as in the tuning of a piano.
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