Tempered tuning VS Perfect tuning

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The piano is only +/-300 years old, so the older instruments (such as the trombone, violin, cello, etc... of which most were fretless, or had slidable pitch controllers) played 2 different notes for what are termed 'enharmonic equivalents' (eg: Fsharp and Gflat)


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So, when the piano was created (or built), the notes that are known as 'sharps and flats' were altered to allow playback with 1 note per 'enharmonic equivalent'.


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