Jazz tuning style? ET, of course

Vince Mrykalo Vince@byu.edu
Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:21:41 -0700


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"Key color" is a straw dog.  More out of tune and less out of tune comes
closer
to describing "key color".  

At 12:27 PM 4/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>As a amateur jazz pianist, personally, I'm much more concerned with the
>color I impart with chord voicings than I am with the "key color" of any
>particular tuning scheme. . . .

>With the sophisticated harmony of jazz, all kinds of colors are available
>within a key signature. . . .

>        So a what constitues a good tuning for me in order of importance are
>solid unisons, clean octaves and at the risk of being flamed off my piano
>stool a well executed ET.
>
>David Severance
>Dept of Music and Theater Arts
>Washington State University
>Pullman, WA 99164
> 
Vince
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