---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 2-apr-04, at 15:48, Corte Swearingen wrote: > > > > > Hello List, > > I have a beginner's question regarding unequal temperaments. I own a > Verituner and have been using the Coleman 11 temperament for a while. =20= > I > don't have a lot of experience with too many alternate temperaments = but > I've heard a lot of good things on the Coleman 11 so I've just been=20 > using > it as my temperament of choice. > > My question is this. I'm wondering if unequal temperaments tend to=20 > sound > like they are going out of tune quicker than equal temperament. My > reasoning is that if some of the notes are already altered from equal > temperament, isn't there less of a "window" of pitch shift before the=20= > piano > starts to sound out of tune? Does this seem to be a valid question=20 > and/or > concern? To me, it would seem that an unequal temperament will go sour sooner=20 than an equal temperament. If for instance an equal tempered 4th or 5th goes 'out' a little, we=20 immediately can distinguish a difference : it sounds more=20 'contaminated'. I am sure that a non-equal temperament could be highly interesting and=20= beautiful, but to tuners and customers who are used to ET this is=20 always a little bit of a problem. I suppose listening to non ET tunings requires first of all an open=20 mind, and to be able to have an opinion about it one has to have a=20 trained ear. I personally am not involved in unequal temperaments, but I very much=20 like Arabian scales, Indian music and music from the far East. I guess I am more or less susceptible to music/scales from 'other'=20 cultures, but I am not trained in tuning unequal tunings. Some time ago I was in Bergen Norway and Richard Brekne, who lives and=20= works there, asked me to listen to a Bill Bremmer tuning he had just=20 tuned. I played the instrument for a bout a minute and told Richard that to me=20= it sounded awful to me and that it sounded like it was in need of a=20 tuning. It means that a. people used to ET may have a problem with un-ET, and=20 it could also be that when an un-ET tuning goes off, it will only cause=20= more 'problems'. I am pretty of that anyway. friendly greetings from Andr=E9 Oorebeek Amsterdam - The Netherlands 0031-20-6237357 0645-492389 0031-75-6226878 www.concertpianoservice.nl www.grandpiano.nl "where music is, no harm can be" ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2349 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0d/f0/5e/43/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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