The Equal Beating Victorian Temperament
You can download the tuning sequences here.
Jason Kanter’s graphs of the EBVT.
EBVT in action
The following examples of a piano tuned in the EBVT III were recorded in the home of a client in Portland, Oregon in early July, 2010.
The piano is a restored Mason & Hamlin RBB, a 7 foot concert grand model equipped with the original but restored Ampico Player system that plays traditional paper rolls as well as a modern LX playback system which plays selections recorded by professional artists on CD’s.
There were also two live pianists identified as Gregg and Patrick. Patrick is a professor of piano performance and Gregg is a professional, free lance pianist and organist. Gregg sight read a number of scores, therefore not all are note perfect but the purpose of exhibiting these music files is to demonstrate that the EBVT III is a versatile temperament, suitable for all musical styles from all periods.
Enjoy!
Gregg
The Ampico Player
- Brahms
- Dizzy Fingers – Zez Confrey
- Irving Berlin’s Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil – The Original Piano Trio 6 hand piano arrangement
- Konzertstuden Concert Study Opus 28 No5 in E Major – Ernst von Dohnanyi
- Rachmaninoff Original Ampico piano roll, in the Key of D flat
The LX playback System
- Ain’t Misbehavin – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Bach up to Me Dick – Hyman plays Fats Waller
- Barberini’s Minuet – Katherine Bacon
- Bob Ralston
- Boogie Woogie
- Caprice in A Minor – Katherine Bacon
- Caravan – Johnny Guarnieri
- Dear Old Southland – The Original Piano Trio
- I can play all through the night
- I’m Goin’ to See My Ma – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Lovey Dove – The Original Piano Trio-
- Mood Indigo – Johnny Guarnieri
- Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit by Ravel – Katherine Bacon, transcribed from a Welte-Mignon Piano Roll and encoded for the LX by Wayne Stahnke
- Rachmaninoff
- Reflets dans L’eau by Debussy – transfered from an Ampico Piano Roll
- Notturno by Resphigi – Earl Wild.
- Stealing Apples – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Where Do I Begin – Bob Ralston
Three stunning pieces by Ravel from the Miroirs suite
- Une Barque sur L’océan (A Boat upon the Ocean)
- Alborada del Gracioso (A Jester’s Dawn Adventure)
- La Vallé des Cloches (The Valley of Bells)
- Brahms
- Dizzy Fingers – Zez Confrey
- Irving Berlin’s Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil – The Original Piano Trio 6 hand piano arrangement
- Konzertstuden Concert Study Opus 28 No5 in E Major – Ernst von Dohnanyi
- Rachmaninoff Original Ampico piano roll, in the Key of D flat
The LX playback System
- Ain’t Misbehavin – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Bach up to Me Dick – Hyman plays Fats Waller
- Barberini’s Minuet – Katherine Bacon
- Bob Ralston
- Boogie Woogie
- Caprice in A Minor – Katherine Bacon
- Caravan – Johnny Guarnieri
- Dear Old Southland – The Original Piano Trio
- I can play all through the night
- I’m Goin’ to See My Ma – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Lovey Dove – The Original Piano Trio-
- Mood Indigo – Johnny Guarnieri
- Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit by Ravel – Katherine Bacon, transcribed from a Welte-Mignon Piano Roll and encoded for the LX by Wayne Stahnke
- Rachmaninoff
- Reflets dans L’eau by Debussy – transfered from an Ampico Piano Roll
- Notturno by Resphigi – Earl Wild.
- Stealing Apples – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Where Do I Begin – Bob Ralston
Three stunning pieces by Ravel from the Miroirs suite
- Une Barque sur L’océan (A Boat upon the Ocean)
- Alborada del Gracioso (A Jester’s Dawn Adventure)
- La Vallé des Cloches (The Valley of Bells)
- Ain’t Misbehavin – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Bach up to Me Dick – Hyman plays Fats Waller
- Barberini’s Minuet – Katherine Bacon
- Bob Ralston
- Boogie Woogie
- Caprice in A Minor – Katherine Bacon
- Caravan – Johnny Guarnieri
- Dear Old Southland – The Original Piano Trio
- I can play all through the night
- I’m Goin’ to See My Ma – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Lovey Dove – The Original Piano Trio-
- Mood Indigo – Johnny Guarnieri
- Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit by Ravel – Katherine Bacon, transcribed from a Welte-Mignon Piano Roll and encoded for the LX by Wayne Stahnke
- Rachmaninoff
- Reflets dans L’eau by Debussy – transfered from an Ampico Piano Roll
- Notturno by Resphigi – Earl Wild.
- Stealing Apples – Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- Where Do I Begin – Bob Ralston
- Une Barque sur L’océan (A Boat upon the Ocean)
- Alborada del Gracioso (A Jester’s Dawn Adventure)
- La Vallé des Cloches (The Valley of Bells)
Three stunning pieces by Ravel from the Miroirs suite