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Title: Disappointed
Review: I purchased this book to understand the history of why the 88 key piano is tuned the way it is. Given recent reviews (including one in the Economist) I was expecting a work similar to Dava Sobel's "Longitude" that describes the historical motivation and development of accurate clocks. This is not it.Less than a quarter of the book is spent on tuning and temperament topics, and some of that is repeated. This text is not at a deep enough technical level to do justice to the topic however occasionally unexplained technical terms pop up. The rest of the book contains concurrent historical events that may be interesting but don't support or give a strong context to the main topic. I'm frustrated that the book wasn't more faithful to the storyline the title suggests.If you're looking for a clear story of why we use the tones that we do, this will leave you a little flat.
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