Jeff Wrote.... Big snip --- My number one and most important rejection of the idea of the implementation of historical temperaments is that it is completely beyond the scope of reality of expectation to impose that piano tuners should be expected to be experts in the realm of temperament history as it relates to musical composition. It simply isn't our call. Jeff Tanner While we needn't be experts on temperaments in different eras, (they all disagree on it anyway) I think we should be able to provide temperaments when asked. Our credibility as professionals is certainly enhanced if we can converse with people intelligently about these things. We are tuners after all and we should have more than one product to offer. If a professor here says he wants a Vallotti temperament for a recital (or class or demonstration) I think it would be considered a reasonable request that I'm glad I can provide. I think my stature would diminish if I just replied "duh, ET or nothing". dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090129/98d95036/attachment.html>
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