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Temperament, Set tings – Kawai CN35 Owner’s Manual User Manual

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Set

tings

2-11

Temperament

The Temperament setting allows the tuning system used by the CN35 digital piano to be changed from the modern

‘Equal Temperament’ standard to one of the various temperaments popularised during the Renaissance and

Baroque periods. It is also possible to create customised temperaments using the User Temperaments function.

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Temperament types

Temperament type

Description

Equal Temperament

(Equal)

This is the most popular tuning method that divides the scale into twelve equal semi-tones.

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.

Pure Temperament

(Pure Major/Pure Minor)

This temperament, which eliminates dissonances for thirds and fifths, is still popular in choral

music because of its perfect harmony. Any key modulation will result in dissonances.

* The key of the temperament, and major/minor setting must be correctly matched.

Pythagorean Temperament

(Pythagorean)

This temperament, which uses mathematical ratios to eliminate dissonance for fifths, is very

limited for use with chords, but produces very characteristic melodic lines.

Meantone Temperament

(Meantone)

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 played with equal temperament.

Werckmeister III Temperament

(Werkmeister)

Kirnberger III Temperament

(Kirnberger)

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.

User Temperament

(User1/2)

User defined temperament created by raising or lowering the pitch for each semi-tone.

1. Selecting the Temperament setting

After entering the Virtual Technician menu (page 89):

Press the

d or c MENU buttons to select the Temperament

setting.

2. Changing the Temperament type

Press the

d or c VALUE buttons to cycle through the different

temperament types.

* Any changes made to the Temperament settings will remain until the

power is turned off.

* Preferred Temperament settings can be stored to a Registration

memory for convenient recall. Please refer to page 34 for more

information.

3. Exiting the Temperament setting

Press the

d and c MENU buttons simultaneously to exit the

Temperament setting and return to the main settings menu.

2-11 Temperament
= Equal

2-11 Temperament
= Meantone

2-11 Temperament
= Equal

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