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As I understand it, we don't know how Bach tuned his keyboard instruments. We know he cared about tuning and tuned his own instruments, but apparently there are
by bloak 7y ago
As I understand it, we don't know how Bach tuned his keyboard instruments. We know he cared about tuning and tuned his own instruments, but apparently there are reasons to believe that he didn't use equal temperament.
Bradley Lehman has a bizarre theory, which you could look up if you're interested. I am not qualified to have an opinion on whether it's a good theory.
- madhadron 7y agoWe know that most of his performance was done using meantone systems, like the rest of his contemporaries. They are are quite precisely known. What his well tempering might have been is a matter of conjecture and many fascinating proposals have been put forward. I had a great time playing in the orchestra for the Bach 4 harpsichord concerto trying out one particularly wild experiment.