---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Ric... Perhaps...such instructions may surface one day.... but still thats only part of the equation really. I see absolutely nothing wrong with anyone deciding to use any particular temperament on any particular piano really..... I would prefer what ever decision is made to be a concioius one... at least as concious as possible. Thats the real sad part of the HT saga... most folks dont even really know jack didly about them and often as not are filled with tons of ridiculous ideas about them. I guess I just have a problem with folks who throw out these bombastic type definitions about how a thing is "supposed" to be done. And I see folks on both sides of the HT / ET question guilty of that one. In the concert in question I suppose I would have reacted to a statement... "Just think how interesting it would have been to try some different HT tunings on these instruments" much more positively then the "Another misrepresentation and abortive attempt at makeing real music executed by the ET gestapo" grin... I am paraphasing of course...but I think you get the point... as I said to begin with. HT proponet I am... tho I know as yet far to little about them, yet I see no point in bashing ET around just because I think HT's are interesting, delightfull to listen too, and very usefull for todays music. Richard Moody wrote: > >> I don't think anyone composes in a temperament. > >> imho. ---ric > > > > > Be all that as it may... assuming you are right for a moment... that kinda > > throws any justification for judging any particular temperament to be more > > "appropriate" then any other for any given peice of music... right out the > > door. > > I mean.. the "artists intent" part of the equation just dissapears. > > > > -- > > Richard Brekne > > Who knows, tomorrow a long lost note book of one of Bach's pupils might > surface containing explicit instructions of how to tune one or (two perhaps) > temperaments from the master himself. That would end a lot of conjecturing. > Until then judging "appropriate temperament" or "artists intent" is just > that, a cabala. > For a balanced and cogent review see Mark Lindley's article in New > Groves, "Temperament" ---ric -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d0/2a/2d/5e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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