This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ed Foote wrote: "This is a question I have asked myself, so now I will ask the list to consider it. Could key color, no matter how slight, be an important missing ingredient and its absence partially responsible for the piano's long slide from dominion? I wonder if a retune is a necessity to get out in front again. " When orchestras or stringed instruments play, or a capella choirs sing, there is no perceptible key color as they try to play some form of "just" intonation. I know their "just" is as imperfect as our ET, but that is their goal. I guess listening to ET has perverted me. I like it! I'd love to do some HTs for people just for the variety and for the marketing aspect, but I don't want it on my piano. The thirds of ET are just what I like. Slower thirds of the simple keys with an HT are OK - different but OK - but the really fast thirds of the keys I like (B, E, F#, A-flat) are not exciting to me, just annoying. I'd like to do an HT on your piano, just not mine. dave _______________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _______________________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/40/b2/1e/7d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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