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2.
The preset tuning list appears on the left. Press the up and down arrows to scroll through the list and press a name to
select a scale tuning.
The pitch difference of the selected scale appears on the right.
3.
When you play the keyboard, you’ll feel the different scale effect. Press the on/off button to turn off the scale and the
instrument will return to the Equal temperament.
Tips!
The instrument pitch is calculated on the basis of the modern universal Equal temperament. One cent is 1%
of one semitone, which means 100 cents are equal to one semitone.
Preset Temperament Introduction
Equal
Equal is the temperament that divides an octave into 12 equal intervals. This temperament has only one
semitone and one equitonic, which is very convenient for transposition. Equal is currently the international
standard tuning for keyboard instruments.
Pure Major
The just intonation is any musical tuning which is based on the stack of intervals called perfect fifth and
major third of overtone series. Pure Major & Minor works best when music uses extensive harmony, such
as vocal harmony or cantata styles.
Because there are two kinds of full tone and half tones in the temperament, it is not generally suitable for
keyboard instrument performance.
Pure Minor
Pythagorean Pythagorean is the oldest temperament in the world, also called Circle-of-fifths. This system was first
devised by Pythagoras and was later named after him.
The Pythagorean temperament comes from a circle-of-fifths system. Compared with Equal, Pythagorean
has a larger full tone and smaller half tone.
Mean-Tone
The Mean-tone was put forward for the practical application of the Pure temperament for keyboard instru-
ments. Its characteristic is very close to the consonance of Pure temperament when forming triads. It was
popular in Europe for hundreds of years because of its simpler structure than Pure temperament.
Werckmeister Werckmeister is an improvement on the Pythagorean proposed by Andreas Werckmeister, a German
organist and music theorist.
The fifth interval of werckmeister retains the essence of natural law and it can play twelve major and
minor keys without retuning. Bach called it the temperament close to Well-Tempered.
Under this temperament, each tonal feature has distinct colors. This is an important basis for classical
and romantic music which names the melody with the tonal name, and also the biggest reason for the
revival of the classical temperament.
Kirnberger
Kirnberger was proposed by Johann Philippe Kirnberger, a student of Bach. After verifying the tempera-
ment used in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavichord, he standardized it as a new temperament.
This temperament is a mixture of the “Mean-tone” and “Pure” temperaments. It is considered an improve-
ment on the”Mean-tone temperament”.
Arabic 1
The Arabic tunings are tailored to playing Arabic music.
Arabic 2
Scale Tuning
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