In a message dated 12/13/01 5:12:26 AM, A440A@AOL.COM writes: << Being sensitive to temperament is a learned skill. And the only ones that are going to be teaching it are the technicians. >> A technician I work with told me a story. I have no reason to believe it's not true, as he is a very straight shooter. The subject came up in a discussion of EBVT, which I had just tuned for the first time, and was delighted with. Since we had two identical grands sitting next to each other in the store, I suggested an experiment: we tune one with ET, the other with EBVT and see if the customers preferred one over the other. He told me it was his privilege to tune a piano for a concert held at a PTG convention about 10 years ago. He tuned it in an HT, but which one he didn't tell me. After the concert, (the audience of course consisting exclusively of tuners) he received many compliments on the fine tuning, but no one made mention of the fact that it was not ET. Seemingly, no one noticed. Therefore, he thought it would be a waste of time to tune the two identical pianos in different temperaments. <<the heavyweights of academia don't want to be told that they have spent their careers in ignorance of some fundamental aspect of the music that they profess to have mastered. They will resist, no matter what. >> Anyone care to respond (...resist) to the anecdote related above? Tom Sivak
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