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Article: How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care).(Book review)
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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care). By Ross W. Duffin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. [196 p. ISBN-10: 0393062279; ISBN-13: 9780393062274. $25.95.] Illustrations, appendix, endnotes, bibliography, sources and permissions, index.
I became interested in reading this book because of a persistent problem encountered by traditional fiddlers. Classical violinists frequently tell fiddlers that they are playing out of tune. One specific problem is that many fiddlers tend to play the third degree of the major scale flat, when compared with the scale used by classical players. This little book sheds a great deal of light on this problem and many ...