At 09:13 PM 8/8/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Nonononono... The flip side of a Reverse Well is an Inverted >EBVT. :) You know, I'm not an expert in HT's, but this Reverse Well talk brings up a point I really don't understand. Now, when one tunes an HT, the "distant" keys get further and further toward the spicy side, and the "simple" keys are bland, right? And the progression is even? That is, A major would be tangier than D major, and E major would be tangier than either? And with a "reverse well" the progression would be the opposite, so that C# major would be all bland, and E major sort of medium, and C major all hyper-sounding? Two questions, really: First of all, why is it assumed that all HT's will center (and ALWAYS HAVE centered) on C? Or isn't that assumed, but no one has bothered to mention other options in my hearing? Secondly, if people are aiming at Equal, and make a few little "mistakes", or slight inexactitudes, small enough that they aren't aware of them, WHY (she asked, incredulously) would one assume that these errors would line up perfectly, so that the keys progressed evenly but BACKWARDS? I mean, isn't it just as likely that they'd be random? They are small enough that someone earning a living tuning pianos isn't hearing them, even with whatever checks, etc., they are using. Also, it seemed to me, when I first heard about Reverse Well, that if it happened at all, it would likely happen with a fourths-and-fifths tuning. But, I feel, most of us use something more sophisticated these days, so we just don't chase around the circle of fifths. So why would any small discrepancies from a scientifically "PERFECT" ET end up with a backwards slant? Conrad, please ship out three heavy duty suits, with that new transparent automatic flameguard visor, extra large ... Susan P.S. All this chasing after .15-cent-perfect exactness of equal temperament reminds me of a statement by a very fine professor of ceramics in the 1970's, when teaching people to use a potter's wheel: "A perfect pot is a dead pot."
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