HT Experience

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Clyde writes:
<<<< HTs have gotten a lot of discussion the last couple years.  So are we on 
the edge of abandoning ET as the "normal standard" in favor of something else 
like the Valotti Young you mentioned? >>>>

Greetings, 
    I don't know that anything is getting abandoned right now.  It seems more 
like an additive process, more and more tuners are now able to offer more 
than one way to tune a piano, and the market for the wider choice is growing. 
How fast and how far?  I don't know,  but I would expect it to be a 
long-ranging evolution.  
   A point I will repeat is that throughout history, intonation has changed. 
These changes,to a large degree, are driven by technology.  Large changes in 
intonation often follow hard on the heels of some new instrument or 
knowledge.  It has been so for a long time and I expect that to continue.  
Thus, ET will be joined by its historical brethren and pianos,as a whole, 
will sport a new allure.  At least, that's the way I could idealize the whole 
thing........ 
    The advent of the computer has had enormous implications in the electonic 
instrument fields, but pianos, with the modern tuning machines making the 
current research easy to implement, are being tuned by increasing numbers of 
multi-temperament technicians.  I know that musicians are finding the 
alternatives to the norm worth paying for. 
   I also think ET will be the standard for comparison for a while.   
Regards, 
Ed Foote