In Reply to: RE: A really good online-education (free) video lecture on the Music Theory topics of Tonality and Triads. posted by Inmate51 on November 27, 2022 at 07:23:23:
The fact that some wind or brass instruments are hard to play in remote keys is an instrument problem, and not a temperament problem per se (IMHO).
Unless we are talking about pipe organs from the late Middle Ages, as far as I know, keyboards were never tuned to just intonation in only one key--there always was some kind of temperament scheme.
I have written previously about the supposedly rediscovered Bach Spiral temperament (Stereophile). It was not equal temperament. It just was more consonant in the easy keys (F, C, G, D) and more jangly in very remote keys like F# major.
What is lost in going to equal temperament is that individual keys are now all equally out of tune, and so the individual character of each key is missing.
ciao,
john
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