The Well-Tuned Piano is an ongoing, improvisatory, solo piano work by composer La Monte Young. Begun in 1964, Young has never considered the composition...

tuned at 442 Hz, the same 2 Hz beat is heard. Because pianos typically have multiple strings for each piano key, these strings must be tuned to the same...

1964, he began work on his unfinished improvisatory composition The Well-Tuned Piano, iterations of which he has performed throughout subsequent decades...

including his The Well-Tuned Piano and Chronos Kristalla (1990). The latter was performed by the Kronos Quartet and features all notes of the magic chord...

containing only identities 3 and 7, thus requiring only two axes, for The Well-Tuned Piano. It is possible to approximate 7-limit music using equal temperament...

octaves are normally stretched on a well-tuned piano. That is, the high notes are tuned higher, and the low notes tuned lower, than they are in a mathematically...

plays the whole building". The Guardian. London. Retrieved March 11, 2010. Young, La Monte (1987). "Notes on The-Well Tuned Piano". The Well-Tuned Piano: 81...

instruments György Ligeti's Clocks and Clouds (1972–3) La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano Bernard Parmegiani's De natura sonorum (1975) Clouds are created...

double basses are tuned using pure fifths or fourths. In contrast, keyboard instruments are rarely tuned using only pure intervals—the desire for different...

Pianos are usually tuned to a modified version of the system called equal temperament (see Piano key frequencies for the theoretical piano tuning)....