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Saving the Piano Designer Settings
The piano sound you create using Piano Designer will return to its original state when you
turn off the power. If you want to keep the sound you created so that it will be preserved
even when the power is off, execute the Memory Backup operation (p. 89) to save your
settings.
Temperaments
Temperament Qualities
Equal
In this tuning, each octave is divided into twelve equal steps. Every interval
produces about the same amount of slight dissonance.
Just (Major)
This tuning eliminates ambiguities in the fifths and thirds. It is unsuited to playing
melodies and cannot be transposed, but is capable of beautiful sonorities.
Just (Minor)
The Just tunings differ from major and minor keys. You can get the same effect
with the minor scale as with the major scale.
Arabic This tuning is suitable for the music of Arabia.
Kirnberger
This is an improvement of the Meantone and Just tunings that provides a high
degree of freedom of modulation. Performances are possible in all keys (III).
Meantone
This scale makes some compromises in just intonation, enabling transposition to
other keys.
Pythagorean
This tuning, devised by the philosopher Pythagoras, eliminates dissonance in
fourths and fifths. Dissonance is produced by third-interval chords, but melodies
are euphonious.
Werkmeister
This temperament combines the Meantone and Pythagorean tunings.
Performances are possible in all keys (first technique, III).
What is the Duplex Scale?
The Duplex Scale is a system of sympathetically vibrating strings sometimes included in
grand pianos.
These sympathetically vibrating strings are not struck directly with hammers, but sound by
vibrating in sympathy with the vibrations of other strings. By resonating with the overtones,
these strings add richness and brilliance to the sound. These sympathetic strings are added
only to the high register above approximately C4. Since they do not have a damper (a
mechanism that stops them from sounding), they will continue sounding even after you play
a note and then release it to stop the sound of the string that was actually struck.
Duplex scaling is often seen on expensive grand pianos, but some manufacturers do not use
it. It is rarely used on upright pianos.
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