Piano Tuning Comparison - Equal vs. Young's Temperament (Part 1) 

Wonderful, I'm glad you can hear it too. Best wishes for your research - I would love to see the results of your work.

By the way, pretty much all the piano videos on my channel from 2021 and later use Young #1, if you are looking to hear more of that.

It's my pleasure. Thank you for your kind words, it makes me even more motivated to stick with what I'm doing.

Thank you so much for sharing that knowledge - I will certainly look into that.

You could do it after some practice. There are however no large orchestras really willing to play that way. It's like singing Vicentino's works (renaissance microtonal pieces), practically no one wants to start learning intonation from scratch.

Bands and especially fretless strings don't play in equal temperament. It would be more appropriate to ask how those groups could play with E.T. keyboards.

Really would have liked a different mic setup. But he was going for a performance vibe so I get it. A more scientific approach would have been my choice, still feel lucky to have found the video and bravissimo to the pianist.

Young's is on the right. I like that one more. See video description.

@@TheJoe13088 thanks for this response. I wonder about the 2nd thomas young temperament. Why chose the 1st over the second? When I look at the charts, the first has more contrasted numbers, the 2nd is more "equal". Is my hypothesis right? Thanks

@@mark80mark80 I tried Young's #2 recently, and it seemed pretty similar to #1. I liked the key contrasts in both. I think the difference has more to do with the process than the result. I'll have to do a more scientific experiment sometime.

@@TheJoe13088 what do you imply (mean) by "process"?

@@mark80mark80 Math.

Thanks for your discerning comment - you are correct. Had I the opportunity to have two matching pianos, perhaps I would have aimed for a more rigorous and fair comparison. However, I made this video on a whim, and for fun, during my honeymoon phase with Young's Temperament...which I still am love with. The model D piano on the right definitely has many advantages over the B on the left, other than the temperament. Hopefully one of these days I'll find time (and the right pianos) to make a better video, but this is what was available to me at the time. Also, I ended up not using the audio from the digital recorder that is visible in the video, so the audio is from the video, which was taken with my phone from its perch atop a music stand. If you'd like to hear the model B tuned to Young's, there are a couple 2-piano concerts up on my channel that feature the two Steinways together, both tuned to Young #1. Thanks again for listening, and for your comment.