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Browse Fred Sturm's "A Clear and Practical Introduction to Temperament History" one part at a time. Published in the Piano Technicians Journal, 2010-2011.

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Browse Fred Sturm's A Clear and Practical Introduction to Temperament History one part at a time. Each link opens the cleaned markdown for that part in the Markdown Viewer.

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About This Series

A series of nine articles by Fred Sturm under the title of "A Clear and Practical Introduction to Temperament History," published in the Piano Technicians Journal in 2010-2011. They cover a period of roughly 1500 - 1850, and are based mostly on practical tuning instructions of that time, from Italy, France, Germany and England.

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Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: The Pure Thirds of Mean Tone Temperament

Part 3: Mean Tone Temperament with "Dirty" Thirds

Part 4: Modified Mean Tone: French Ordinaire, and Italian Developments

Part 5: German Irregular Circulating Temperaments

Part 6: Equal Temperament

Part 7: Temperament in England

Part 8: Jorgensen's "Tuning"

Part 9: Practical Application