ET...go home

[pianolover 88]

I would stil love to hear a recording--ANY recording for either piano solo 
or with orchestra, or chamber, where the piano is tuned to anything other 
than ET.
I just may experiment on my OWN piano, by tuning some various temeraments 
stored in my SAT III.


Terry


>From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: ET...go home
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:50:03 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/6/02 8:36:44 AM Central Standard Time,
>pianolover88@hotmail.com (pianolover 88) writes:
>
>
> > If "WT" or ANYthing other than ET is so much better, in your opinion, 
>than
> > why, I wonder, is ET so universally employed as the "standard?" I'm more
> > than open to hearing your thoughts. I only know that our Steinway tech
> > tunes
> > ONLY ET and his results are glorious! Let's remember that ten tuners can
> > tune ET on the SAME piano, and each may sound different, depending on 
>the
> > accuracy, stability, and the amount of stretch of each tuning.
> >
> >
>
>Ahemmm!  Terry, do you recall when I met you at that Steinway dealership 
>and
>you asked my opinion on whether a particular Steinway was in good enough 
>tune
>to go out?  I said "yes" and I also remarked that it was not in ET but a 
>mild
>form of a WT, even if it was not done that way on purpose.
>
>The more claims there are of ET only, it seems the more that I can prove my
>point that it just isn't so.  That Steinway tuner may *believe* that he is
>tuning ET but if his results are consistently the way I heard that day, I'd
>say the reason his tunings sound so good is that they are *not* in fact, 
>ET.
>I wouldn't, however try to bring this up with him because he might get very
>defensive about it.  Believe me, I know this from experience.
>
>No one is ever likely to ask you for any of the tunings you have stored in
>your SAT because no one you're ever likely to tune for has ever heard of
>them.  That is why ET is considered "standard" because for a hundred years,
>the knowledge of any other choice has been suppressed and denied to the
>public.  Yet, people sometimes find a way to something better by trial and
>error while still holding contradictory beliefs.
>
>If you want to step into the HT territory, it is a bold move.  You really
>need to know what you're doing and how to make the proper choices.  If you 
>go
>around talking too much about it, you'll get into the same kind of trouble 
>I
>have.  It's a serious step to take, not something to do on a lark.
>
>Bill Bremmer RPT
>Madison, Wisconsin
>  <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e 
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