Non-ETs; more organic than ET?

[Jason Kanter]

The reason any WT, even a very "good" one, may sound out of tune to an
ET-trained piano tuner, is that tuners tend to assess a tuning by chromatic
thirds, sixth, tenths etc. Our brain checks with "little faster ... little
faster ..." and it doesn't work for any WT. The musician, on the other hand,
plays a piece of music. In a well-tuned WT, odds are the piece of music
sounds terrific.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: Non-ETs; more organic than ET?


> Hi Don,
>
> The only people who play equal temperament are the keyboard players. The
> rest of the world doesn't. The other problem is that it is impossible to
> satisfy *all* the conditions of ET with any temperament sequence. The very
> best is only an approximation of truely ET.
>
> Personally having lived and eaten approximate ET for ever I find even a
> master tuner doing even a mild ET leaves the piano simply sounding "out of
> tune" to my ear. However tuning and temperaments are a matter of taste and
> I'd certainly not put down anyone who likes something I don't.
>
> At 04:01 PM 4/3/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >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
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
>
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