Baroque trumpet
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The baroque trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family. It is designed to allow modern performers to imitate the natural trumpet when playing music of that time, so it is often associated wit
Baroque Trumpets in a museum
Baroque trumpet, model Johann Leonhard Ehe III, Nürnberg, 1700
Trompettes baroques
Łukasz Rafiński trąbka barokowa
Equal temperament
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Equal temperament is a musical temperament that divides the octave into 12 identical parts. It is a logarithmic scale with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2. The scale unit is known as a semitone or
Baroque trumpet
…intonation and meantone temperament. The harmonic series of the trumpet requires less lipping for these period temperaments than when playing in the equal temperament that modern players are used to. The out-of-tune f2 and a2 (written, relative to a fundamental of C) are usually sounded only briefly in passing. Baroque…
Prince Zhu Zaiyu constructed 12 string equal temperament tuning instrument, front and back view
Zhu Zaiyu's equal temperament pitch pipes
Simon Stevin's Van de Spiegheling der singconst c. 1605