This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Not clear yet whether Beethoven's piano wasn't tuned in ET (I am = inclined to think that it very well might have been based on the = preliminary evidence that I've seem--more on that later), but certainly = it didn't have the sustaining power or as powerful a bass and many = pianists make adjustments to the pedal markings accordingly. David Love=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: March 13, 2002 6:33 AM Subject: Re: I Wish! In a message dated 3/13/02 8:28:30 AM Central Standard Time, = hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu (Conrad Hoffsommer) writes:=20 >Anybody have any ideas on why an artist of his supposed caliber = would do=20 >this?=20 Other than the instructions at the beginning of the movement saying = "senza=20 sordino", I can't think of a reason.=20 I can't either. If you are going *alter* the music by using an = instrument which is far larger with much longer sustain than anything = Beethoven had and particularly, tune in a way which by all accounts = Beethoven would never have had done, why take a small notation like that = literally? It produced very dissonant sounds which for me, ruined it.=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin=20 Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =3D-=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f7/f2/91/ea/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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