THE VIDEO SHELF · tuning and temperament
jacob collier tunes the piano
A one-minute clip of Jacob Collier tuning a piano, remarking that it is not in tune at all. It touches on his views on equal temperament and tuning.
Why HN readers recommended it
Used as an example in music theory and tuning discussions of continuous-pitch thinking beyond equal temperament.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- George Collier
- Topic
- tuning and temperament
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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> On continuous pitch instruments (e.g. violin, voice), this is entirely possible to do Jacob Collier has a good example of this[1] (I'm a huge fan). Separately, I've previously heard this referred to as "equal temperament" tuning which makes me wonder what led to this …
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