Non-ETs; more organic than ET?

[Don A. Gilmore]

I suppose, if your goal is to sound "just as crappy as Mozart did", you can
have your piano tuned like that and give a nice little solo concert.  You
can even dress in period attire.  While your at it, why not turn off the
central heating and light the stage with coal oil lamps.

This is fine if you're just doing it for novelty, playing for non-musicians,
or just fiddling around.  But if you want to seriously play, compose, or jam
in the real, modern world, you'd better use ET.  Fortunately, virtually all
professionals do.

Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Kanter" <jkanter@rollingball.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Non-ETs; more organic than ET?


> Don, your credentials do not extend to musical history. Please educate
> yourself a bit before declaiming like this. You might look at my website
> http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm  for a visual of how the
> mathematics work in these temperaments. Mozart probably played on
> instruments tuned to the Prinz temperament, which you can find in the
group
> of Well temperaments.