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Temperament
The EZP3 features a variety of musical temperaments popular during the Renaissance and Baroque
periods in addition to the modern Equal Temperament, which is the standard in music today.
Brief Explanation of Temperaments
Equal Temperament
(Piano Only)
This is the default temperament. If a piano sound is selected the tuning is
stretched like an acoustic piano (Equal Temperament).
If any other type of sound is selected the tuning will be Equal (Flat). An explana-
tion of Equal Temperament and Equal Temperament (Flat) is provided later in
this section. If a piano sound is used in a layer with any other sound, then both
sounds will use the EQUAL TEMPERAMENT (stretched) tuning.
Mersenne Pure Temperament
(Major)
Mersenne Pure Temperament
(Minor)
This temperament, which eliminates dissonances for thirds and fifths, is still
popular for choral music because of its perfect harmony.
Performers must be aware which key they are playing in when using this tem-
perament.
Any key modulation will result in dissonances. When playing music in a particular
key, the key of the temperament must also be correctly matched.
When playing in a major key select Pure (Major) and when playing in a minor key
select Pure (Minor).
Pythagorean Temperament
This temperament, which uses mathematical ratios to eliminate dissonance
for fifths, is very limited for use with chords, but it produces very characteristic
melodic lines
Meantone Temperament
This temperament, which uses a mean between a major and minor whole tone to
eliminate dissonance for thirds, was devised to eliminate the lack of consonances
experienced with certain fifths for the Mersenne pure temperament. It produces
chords that are more beautiful than those with the equal temperament.
Werckmeister III Temperament
Kirnberger III Temperament
These two temperaments are placed in between Meantone and
Pythagorean. For music with few accidentals, this temperament produces the
beautiful chords of the mean tone, but as accidentals increase, the temperament
produces the characteristic melodies of the Pythagorean temperament. It is used
primarily for classical music written in the Baroque era to revive the original
characteristics.
Equal Temperament (Flat)
This is an ‘unstretched’ equal temperament that divides the scale into twelve
equal semitones. This produces the same chordal intervals in all twelve keys,
and has the advantage of limitless modulation of the key. However the tonality of
each key becomes less characteristic and no chord is in pure consonance.
Equal Temperament
This is the most popular piano temperament. The hearing ability of a human is
uneven and is not as accurate with high frequency and low frequency as it is with
the middle range. This temperament’s tuning is stretched to compensate for this
so the sound will be heard naturally to the ears. This ‘stretched’ equal tempera-
ment is a practical variation of the ‘unstretched’ equal temperament which was
invented on a mathematical basis.
1. Press and hold the Touch and Transpose buttons.
Press and release the E. Piano button. Release Touch and Transpose.
E. Piano
The buttons will start to flash, indicating that the Temperament
function has been selected.
The name of the function ‘tMP’ (Temperament) and the current
settings will be shown in the LED display.