---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 12/19/02 9:01:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, Tvak@aol.com writes: > In the July 2002 PTG Journal there's a letter to the editor from Edwin M. > Good, who is the author of Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos. In > his letter he mentions that his piano has been tuned in a 19th century well > temperament for 11 years now, and that he enjoys the sound of Brahm's music > with that temperament. > > I am especially fond of Brahms's music and would love to hear this > particular temperament. Does anyone know who tunes Mr. Good's piano? I'm > hoping whoever that tuner is, is an RCT user and will share the temperament > with us. > > Thank you for your attention and help. > > Sincerely, > > It's interesting that you noted Brahms' music as influential. As it is written in my website under the "Origins of the EBVT", it was an artist playing Brahms on a piano tuned in the Rameau-Rousseau-Hall 18th Century Modified Meantone Temperament which caught my attention and from that moment on, had me choosing something other than ET to tune the piano. The EBVT is actually a highly mitigated version of that 18th Century temperament which can be tuned accurately by ear since it is one of the Equal Beating Temperaments. I also produced a representative 18th Century and early 19th Century version of it. These Modified Meantone type Temperaments sound very similar to Well Tempered Tunings and can be used as substitutes for them (something which Jorgensen encourages). It is found in the little known second publication by Owen Jorgensen called, "The Equal Beating Temperaments-A Handbook for Tuning Harpsichords and Fortepianos..." While I know that any of Brahms' music would sound wonderfully harmonious in the EBVT, or either of the above 3 mentioned Modified Meantone Temperaments, my suggestion of a Well Tempered Tuning for you would be the Jean Jousse Well Tempered Tuning of 1832. Below are the cents deviations taken directly from Owen Jorgensen's book, "Tuning": A 0.00 G# +3.89 G +2.68 F# -0.01 F +3.95 E -1.57 D# +5.84 D +0.68 C# +1.93 C +3.69 B -1.97 A# +5.31 Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f4/2a/9a/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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