Hi Avery, You asked. He! He! He! I was asked to give a lecture to a group of registered music teachers, on how to communicate with their piano tech's. Also some tuition on how to tell the difference from tuning, vs voicing, vs regulation. As a spoof, I tuned one concert grand in ET and the other in HT. (Volatti/Young) After speaking for 1 1/4hr. I sprung a suprise ear training test on them. Jolly's ear training 101. Had a friend play the opening movement of the Pathetique and last movement of Waldstein. Question: Which piano is in tune? They were forwarned that I had taken a head count and that every one must give an answer. Suprise. 5 for ET. 31 for HT. Since I was only accepting both are in tune, or both are out of tune, (I tuned them the previous day) as being the correct answer. I was accused of submitting trick questions. Some one even commented that I was guilty of dirty pool. Every one in the room was suprised about the out come. Once it was explained that this was a temperament that may have been used by Beethoven. Certainly in use from about 1799 to say 1810. The contrast from C major to minor was the eye opener. Then some one played a short snippet of some thing in F#, Ha,Ha, and Yuck! Many teachers stayed late just to play for them selves. They will be organising a HT concert later in the season. What started out as a spoof kind of joke, got a lot of people intrigued. This was my first public attempt at HT, so i was more than a little on edge. But pleasantly suprised at the outcome. Now you know. Roger Avery Todd wrote: > Tell us more. Temperamental minds want to know! > > Avery
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