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A bugle can't do equal temperament, so yes, but are there any standard orchestral instruments that can't be made to do equal temperament? Obviously a string qu
by bloak 4y ago
A bugle can't do equal temperament, so yes, but are there any standard orchestral instruments that can't be made to do equal temperament?
Obviously a string quartet doesn't normally play equal temperament, but they could if they wanted to, I think, if we ignore the playing of harmonics, which is a fairly unusual technique.
- sethgrisham 4y agoJust because an instrument can do equal temperament doesn't mean that is necessarily the best choice. Although absolute pitch can't be heard by most, relative pitch can, and so when playing any interval, such as a fourth, it will sound off in equal temperament, yet sound perfect when you put it "out of tune". There's some pretty interesting music theory that comes out of the traditional 12 tones not being able to be equally subdivided to then be arranged into those perfect intervals
- goto11 4y ago> Obviously a string quartet doesn't normally play equal temperament This seem to refute the assertion by arxanas that "all keys sound the same (unless you have perfect pitch)".