This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment It has been my experience as a percussionist in orchestras that most = string players have a problem with nearly everything. James ;>) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Bradley M. Snook=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:49 PM Subject: Re: OFF (*was: neurology)To Bradley Snook Jim, you and I am on the same page! Strings should do exactly as the = brass choirs: we should both strive for beatless intervals. It is just = we are using slightly different terminology to say the same thing.=20 Isn't comparing pianos and their peculiarities to other groups = irrelevant as far as temperaments go? When mixing the two, the = instruments that can tune "on the fly" so to speak, will by necessity = match the fixed instruments (i.e. piano). Well . . . it is not irrelevant, it is actually a big problem. String = players have a very difficult time playing in a system of EQT, but we do = what we can. It is generally less of a problem for strings to play = against something like a well temperament ( . . . it is simply because = there are less beating intervals to be concerned with). =20 Susan K. said no string player would ever play a beatless 3rd except = by ineptness ... Is that true?=20 No, and if she really feels that way . . . well I am just glad that I = have not had the pleasure to do a performance with her. You are = absolutely correct: sections of a really good orchestra will [strive to] = play beatless chords.=20 Bradley ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/31/00/56/5d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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