Unequal Temperaments

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Hi Avery and all: 
    I have for some time been suggesting that Chopin's music might have a 
significantly different structure when played on the DeMorgan temperament.  
Well, today was ground center.
       We  begin recording our second temperament CD next week and Enid 
Katahn came over to try the Chopin piece on the DeMorgan tuning.  She has 
both her pianos at home in more conventional well temperaments and this was 
the first time for her to try it on a reversed order of tonality.  It was  
amazing.  For any that would like to hear it ahead of time,  use Jorgensen's 
numbers and play the Impromtu 66.  I have also heard the op. 28 preludes on 
this tuning and the results are spectacular.  
   Even more surprising was later this afternoon when a local piano 
pro,(plays for a major country act) came over and tried this "oddball" 
temperament.  He really got into it and was, as he said later, playing 
totally new voicings before he began playing totally new music.  ( it is 
often hard to get some of the working pros to let their guard down and just 
pick, I think the tuning sent him out in the zone almost instantly!)
      I think he may have gotten the idea of a song while wandering 
fecklessly among the keys.  His own piano is kept in a Broadwood tuning, and 
the reversed order of the DeMorgan was a totally new texture to him,  but he 
doubled his tuning budget for the next project  so that we can use several 
different tunings,  what an idea!  If this actually happens, I will post the 
title on the list here. 
    Avery?  Have you got a meantone under the jazzer's hands down there in 
Houston yet? I still think that is going to be a very interesting sound.  
Keep us posted. 
Regards, 
Ed Foote