I have been reading about this topic with great interest and will reserve my personal comments until I think I have all the facts. I may have missed this point so I am asking Bill Bremmer to please explain again his meaning of "cycle of 5ths based HT's ". How does a "cycle of 5ths based HT" differ from one that is not "cycle of 5ths" based? Does "cycle of 5ths" mean *anything* else but a succession of 5ths that leads back after 12 steps to the initial tone thereby being capable of arranging in a circle? I ask these questions in order to fully understand the HT devotees. I recently bought and listened to Ed Foote's recording of Beethoven's sonatas performed with HT. I don't have all the facts re: HT to put my 2 cents in yet, but I must say that the pianist is very good and Ed's notes that came with the disk are outstanding. I'm tempted to disagree with a few of his ideas but that will have to wait. His explanation of string vibrations, partials etc. is superbly organized and clear. I daresay that many technicians who learned their skills by rote, would do well to read this booklet. It would be interesting to hear a movement of one of these sonatas performed back to back with HT and ET on the same recording with the same piano. That, I think, would be most revealing because any reaction to the sound of the piano would be point directly to the temperament and not the piano or the recording. Howard S. Rosen, RPT Boynton Beach, Florida
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