De Gustibus (* tuning)?

[Horace Greeley]

Don and Ed,

Check below:

At 08:56 PM 3/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Ed Foote wrote:
>
>>>      Wow!  Now this makes me wonder if I have read this right.  The
>resulting sound of a piano tuned in something such as a Kirnberger/Prinz is
>way different than that of equal temperament.
>     It seems to me that if there was a correspondingly large difference
>between two tuners tuning ET, one of them would not be passing any tuning
>tests.  Have I read the original post wrong? <<
>
>Well, I don't know if it was your reading or my writing, but I was
referring to the difference between most "well"  temperaments (that being
the subject of the thread) and equal temperaments being relatively minor
compared to the differences between 2 different tuners _tunings,_ not just
temperaments.
>
>We get so wrapped up in the middle of the piano that we sometimes forget
that octaves and unisons are kinda important as well, and the way these are
tuned varies quite audibly from one person to another.
>
>Don Mannino
>

This last bit is beautifully illustrated in the Journal which covered the
"Great Tune Off".

One couldn't ask for two greater exponents of their respective positions
that Jim and Virgil, and,
even our esteemed Technical Editor spoke of sometimes preferring one or the
other piano.

This in a reasonably well controlled situation.

Further, these different temperaments are going to sound different from one
piano to the next, just as
equal temperament does, without regard to who is doing the tuning.

Horace




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