Alternative Temperaments

[Clark]

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Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote:

> Whew!  Kind of interesting but I'm afraid that this is the kind of "way out
> there" thinking that scares people away.  It is not what I am interested in
> or what I do and not what other people like Skip Becker, Dave Lamoreux, Karen
> Hudson-Brown and Ed Foote do either.
>
> We may argue and disagree among ourselves about certain things but we all
> have one goal in common: a better, more musical sounding piano, not a weird,
> far out sounding one.  We all want what ET is supposed to provide:  a piano
> that will express virtually any music that the general public might care to
> play, beautifully and correctly.  We don't want it to offend anyone.  We
> don't want it to sound "sour".  We want it to to sound "in tune", titillate
> the ear and make the music all the more enjoyable.

I would say that the 1/3 comma meantone, nearly perfectly posing as 19tet, is
much more "far out" sounding than 22tet and it has been historically favored.

Clark Panaccione

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