close enough>??

[Don]

Hi David,

As that I suspect that one reason HT temperaments are liked is that 99% of
pianists are used to hearing pianos that are not even close to concert
level tuning. "You are what you eat" could be paraphrased to "You are what
you hear".

At 08:40 AM 1/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Ed:
>
>You have proved in the past that you are a brave man!  I think your
>procedures and analysis is correct here.  The brave part is declaring
>on this list that the piano doesn't have to be within 0.002 cents
>before you start to get good results.  Personally, I think one of the
>big differences is that you tune the unisons as you go.  I have
>always believed that strip muting the whole piano requires that it be
>much closer than if you do the unisons as you go.  I don't know all
>of the science involved in this phenomenon, and I don't have time to
>explain my conjecture, but I'm convinced that stripping the whole
>piano requires starting with a more in-tune piano.
>
>dave

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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