"Jim Coleman, Sr wrote > In essenceI was discovering that you can't have your cake and eat it too, so > to speak. > If you rob Peter, you must pay Paul. Equal temperament is the ultimate > compromise, but in the process, much of the beauty of tuning and > musicality has been lost. Mr Ray Anderson was kind enough to do a demo of a historical temp.in my studio as a guild demo. I liked so much I left it on the piano for some time. About a year ago I began experimenting. I was tuning for a violin teacher who used her piano for accompanying. Since my daughter began studying violin, I appreciate the favored keys of D... G.. I favored these two keys the most, with nearly pure 3rds, F#, Db major were much too bright.The tonic cords in D-G were magic. The dominant cords of these keys had tension. I would describe the harmony as having a kaleidoscope effect, increased tension-relaxation, crest to harmonic tension in the wave of music, the purity of the tonic is appreciated even more after the dissonance of the dominant.----Ramble--Ramble---- The bottom line is she loved it. And even though couldn't technically describe what was going on, appreciated the "lovely color in the music".....and I hadn't yet told her what I'd done(This teacher is a friend, and I felt a little liberty to experiment and test her of my own volition, beyond what I would do with clients) Since then I have tried things on my own piano, and find this whole area of great interest. I intend to use skewed temperaments in my recording studio in the future. Do appreciate many of the discussions here on this list. David Renaud RPT Ottawa-Hull Canada
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