>>37310396https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzVN1FEhYpUNotice how the standard equal temperament (piano tuning) sounds like a terrible angrybirds instrument?
Pianos in standard tuning are permanently out of tune due to the fact that they use equal temperament.
This means that all notes are equally spaced, and that subsequently all of the non unison intervals will be offset from their optimal whole number frequency ratios to each other.
Hence, the piano creates a lot of destructive interference in its chords, that make it so that they will never truly resonate with all of the additive frequencies that a truly in tune chord could have.
Thus, this locks the piano into certain tempos of music and styles, because It would be too grating to listen to at lower, bpms, because as the tempo goes slower, the dissonance becomes much more obvious.
Hence even if equal temperament makes the piano a versatile instrument, in the end, the addition of piano to songs and performances provides a constantly out of tune source of harmonic noise to otherwise perfect performances, ruining them. This is why most small ensemble classical music, with instruments that can adjust individual notes sounds much more sonorantly open and pleasant, compared to the autistic screeching and banging of the pianos eternally out of tune thirds.
Listen to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Dl6oHqNzcNow imagine this in equal temperament. It would be literal earrape.
Imagine being an instrument so bad, you sound worse than a couple of chipoltle waiters with metal pipes.
