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Title: Pretentious and uninformative
Review: The theme of this book, the history behind modern tuning and its effect on the development of modern music and modern keyboard instruments, is a fascinating one. Sadly, Mr. Isacoff is more interested in letting us know that he's acquainted with celebrities, practices eastern meditation and is acquainted with books on a range of topics (e.g., medieval and renaissance Judaism and mathematics), than he is in coherently rendering his theme. This is the worst sort of non-academic history, an author who's unable to keep the story on track and is more interested in proving that he's interesting than in providing anything of value to the reader.
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