ET...go home

[Avery Todd]

Hi Terry,

I seem to remember that Ed just 'happens' to have two
CD's with just that kind of thing on them. :-)

Avery

At 07:47 PM 03/05/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Ed,
>
>Perhaps you could recommend, if any, recordings either for solo piano or 
>otherwise, by ANY notable classical pianists, living or dead, who have had 
>there pianos tuned to anything OTHER than ET for their recordings, so I 
>can hear for myself just how wonderful these non-ET tunings sound; 
>afterall, in the final analysis, that's all that counts.
>As for "learning" to tune in less popular temperaments, my SAT III has 
>built in non-equal temps which I can use anytime I have the inclination, 
>but unless requested, and so far that has NOT happened, i will use ET.
>
>Terry
>
>
>>From: A440A@AOL.COM
>>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>>Subject: Re: ET...go home
>>Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:01:06 EST
>>
>>Terry 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?"
>>
>>Commercial appeal. It is the one size fits all.  But first, to consider the
>>statement,
>>" If "WT" or ANYthing other than ET is so much better, in your opinion"
>>     It isn't necessarily MY opinion,  I don't pay myself to tune.  The
>>greater attraction for WT pianos comes from the customers.  I now have many
>>customers that have told me that they will never return to ET, and I'm about
>>the only source.  I like being in this position here.   That is the reason I
>>have been suggesting that techs learn to tune more than one way.  There is
>>money, reputation, and job security out there for the more progressive tech.
>>
>> >I'm more than open to hearing your thoughts. I only know that our Steinway
>>tech
>> >tunes  ONLY ET and his results are glorious!
>>
>>Has he ever had to compete with a tuner that is offering a wider variety of
>>tuning?  When the time comes, you may find that what is "glorious" loses some
>>of its luster.
>>
>> >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.
>>
>>      Yes, but those differences are neglible in comparison to the 
>> differences
>>between the clinical ET and even the mildest well-temperament.   Without
>>discussing it beforehand, I am finding that only 1 out of about 10 pianist
>>prefer the Et piano to the well-tempered one, so there is more to this than a
>>momentary infatuation with "new".
>>     There is a growing movement in this country towards a wider approach to
>>temperaments and there will be more and more incidences of the WT tech taking
>>business away from those that can't offer it.  I have seen this happen in
>>several places already and it shows no sign of letting up.
>>     "You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows".
>>Regards,
>>Ed Foote RPT
>
>
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