Meantone organs in North America information

Pipe organs that are tuned in meantone temperament are very rare in North America. They are listed here, by type of temperament and sorted by date of construction...

several of his organs are tuned in 1/4 Syntonic comma Meantone where their primary intention is for historically oriented performance of the organ literature...

point in life, his interest in organs had not fully matured yet.: 87 He played trumpets and organs. On Fisk's 13th birthday, he was given a reed organ, on...

with each other by using the meantone temperament tuning system. Modern carillons, particularly those in North America, are tuned to equal temperament...

16th and 17th centuries, it is tuned in meantone temperament. The Duke family crest can be seen at the top of the organ case. A Memorial Chapel was later...

paintings the Stanfords admired in Europe. The church has five pipe organs, which allow musicians to produce many styles of organ music. Stanford Memorial Church...

key of F-sharp minor requires a more flexible tuning than the standard meantone temperament of the Baroque era and was therefore rarely used by contemporary...

Schnitger organ in Germany. It is the largest organ tuned in quarter-comma meantone temperament worldwide.[citation needed] Anna von Hausswolff appears on...

of the noteworthy meantone-temperament organ in Yale University's Marquand Chapel, constructed and installed by Taylor and Boody in the summer of 2007...

J.S. Bach did not use equal temperament, changes in the temperaments from the then-common meantone system to various temperaments that made modulation...

music Mass (music) Matrix (music) Maxima (music) Maximal evenness Mazurka Meantone temperament Measure Mediant Medieval music Melharmony Melisma Melodic expectation...

to the tempering of the instrument, and some players and consorts adopt meantone temperaments, which are more suited to Renaissance music. Several fretting...