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are just half of these. The piano, and other
finger-board instruments, are constructed on this
assumption, and thus C sharp and D flat are
treated as identical, and represented by the same
strings. In like manner there is no distinction
between D sharp and E flat, or between C sharp
and D natural, E sharp and F natural, and so on,
with all the half tones. Besides this, the piano
affords no distinction between major and minor
tones and semitones, nor the difference of pitch,
which even the same nominal note demands,
according to the position in the scale in which it
falls with the variation of key. All these delicate
shades of difference, upon which so much of the
sweetness of melody and the perfection of harmony
depend, are cancelled in the pianoforte, and the
errors, which in some keys would be glaring if
the instrument were tuned accurately to any one
key, are imperfectly concealed by dividing the
error as equally as possible, and thus producing a
chromatic scale which is out of tune for every
major or minor key, and in which no modern
music can be correctly played.
In order to obtain correct rendering of all the
ordinary keys, the piano would require thirty-five
notes to each octave, or a practical approximation
might be attained by twenty-four. If, however, the
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