In a message dated 6/16/99 8:23:41 AM Central Daylight Time, you write: << In a radio program about Schumann's Fantasia Op. 17, they were comparing different recordings and telling that some of them enphasized a key more than others. I couldn't tell the difference at the time but I thought it was interesting. Jaume >> The program you heard probably did not have any pianos tuned in Historical Temperaments. Whatever "key color" you were supposed to have heard was merely the imagination of the programmer or the result of playing louder and faster. When you finally do hear some real Well-Tempered or Meantone Tuning, there will be no question about the difference in your mind. What you heard, the absurd idea that ET still has key color is part of the "Big Lie" that Skip has written about. If there was any unintended key color that was evident because the temperament was not really equal, it was an example of the even "Bigger Lie" that I wrote about. The use of such words as "lie" is not intended by Skip nor myself to offend anyone, just to candidly point out the very commonly held misconceptions that have been believed by so many for so long. The use of words like "unethical and illegal behavior" and <> were intended only to degrade and demean. The people that write these things seem to think that it is their right and privilege to say anything they want to and about anyone else but when they get a little of their own medicine, they can't swallow it. By the way, I lived in Barcelona (pronounced "Barthelona") for a while many years ago. I have fond memories of it and it left an indelible change in the way I speak Spanish. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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