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Key signatures, equal temperament and the 12-tone tuning system
Howard Goodall plays an extract in different key signatures on the piano and explains the 12-tone tuning system. He then discusses Johann Sebastian Bach鈥檚 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' and the degrees of the scale.
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