Keith Jarret got suspended from Berklee College of Music for retuning some of the pianos in the practice rooms to microtones. It's something that has been experimented with since before the mean temepered scale, specifically because it was hard to get instruments into a standard tuning with the technology around at the time.

The music that is written and preformed using microtones has a very differnt flavor from music written for tempered instruments. To use the color analogy purple and lavander are not the same color, they are close and related but not the same. So why limit your pallet to 12 whole tones?

Nowadays we don't have to retune pianos to get microtones on a keyboard.

Check this out. 211 keys per octave.

http://www.h-pi.com/TPX28intro.html


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