Timeline for Was equal temperament caused by the invention of the piano, or was it inevitable?
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 18:11 | comment | added | guest | … the early history is not very well documented, because "good" instruments were modernized, and "bad" ones were scrapped. Even in the early 18th century, there were keyboard instrument makers whose main source of income was rebuilding and modernizing harpsichords made by the Ruckers family in Antwerp (which had a quality reputation similar to that of say Stradivarius violins today) that were 100 or 150 years old. These rebuilds involved making new keyboards, extending the compass, adding more sets of strings, etc. | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 17:59 | comment | added | guest | Certainly there is a 12-key organ keyboard documented as being built in in 1361, though the keys were arranged as "8 + 4" not "7 + 5", with two "white" keys for B flat and B natural! By 1495 it had been rebuilt in the modern "7 + 5" layout. The 1361 instrument may have replaced an earlier one with just 8 "white" keys per octave, i.e. C D E F G A Bb B C - maybe the organist in 1361 didn't want the hassle of having to re-learn a keyboard with Bb in a different place. | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 17:47 | history | edited | guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 17:41 | comment | added | phoog | Indeed, in the early centuries of keyboards, they didn't have 12 keys per octave. I wonder when the 12-key keyboard was invented. Do you know? | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 17:36 | history | answered | guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |