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The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament
The first edition of this book (Metamorphous Press, 1986) was called by some reviewers “the zen of piano tuning.” It won the Western States Book Award for creative nonfiction in 1986, has sold more than 15,000 copies, and has been translated into Japanese. This second edition has up-to-date information from new scholarship about early piano history. "To write about temperament so that ordinary non-technical readers can understand it, is the most difficult writing challenge there is, and you accomplished this in a masterful fashion. . . .This is a great book."
Owen Jorgensen
keyboard temperament scholar and historian
The “Seventh Dragon” in Japanese folklore is an invisible creature known for his power of hearing. This is a book about the way a piano is tuned. Becoming a piano tuner is somewhat like joining a secret society: you discover that you are learning a craft in the ancient Socratic sense, not merely a mechanical process. The book leads the reader through the history and musical theory behind Equal Temperament, the tuning system generally used on pianos for the past 150 years. |
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