A question on temperament

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Ed.

Course living here in Bergen kinda rules me out as far as your customer is
concerned, and besides.. I am just starting out on my non-ET adventure.

Concerning your question tho.. Bergen is a bit of a conservative town..yet even
here I hear increasing comments and wishes for non ET tunings. Cembelos.. or as
you call them Harpsichords, here are exclusivly tuned in non ET ,, by an
organist who doesnt really know what he is doing, but seems to do an ok job. I
loosely checked one of his Weickermeisters.. grin or what ever they are called
(I am a newbee to these things you see..) against my puter and it seemed to hold
up well.

In anycase, my own experiences in the recent past, the increasing interest for
non ET, and discussions on the list with Bill Bremmer, Richard Moody, to some
degree Newton, and others have all led me towards wanting to learn how to tune
these and tune them well.

I gotta kinda figure that ET's days of near total dominance in the western world
of music are numbered, and would advise all tuners to take a second, and third
look at alternatives.. not only because of how they sound.. but because one can
obviously learn a good deal about all tuning efforts in the process.

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

> Greetings all,
>     I received the following letter from a newsgroup member:
>
> >     I am a new (adult) piano student, and have recently acquired a used
> >instrument which is due for its first in-home tuning.  I am interested
> >almost exclusively in Baroque keyboard music, and so the possibility of
> >some form of Well Temperament is very intriguing.
> >Can you possibly recommend any tuners or technicians that you know, or
> >know of, in the Southern California area who might be experienced, or at
> >least sympathetic, to non-ET tuning? <snip> Los Angeles proper (I live in a
> suburb
>
> just east of downtown).
>
> Hmmm,  I suppose no one in the Yellow Pages is screaming about their wide
> temperament variety out there! (:)   If there is anyone that would like to
> find a customer here, please email me directly and I will be glad to put you
> in touch!
>      I am getting more and more of these requests all the time, any others
> out there seeing a variety of temperaments being requested?
> Regards,
> Ed Foote