Temperaments...

[Don]

Hi Vince,

Have a listen to Tafelmusik. They perform in a Valotti-Young temperament.
(at least the harpschord)

http://www.colbertartists.com/ArtistBio.asp?ID=40

At 03:30 PM 4/5/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>hi Ron,
>Being a pianist as well as a tuning student, I really wish I could hear some
>of these un-equal temperaments.  I have never been able to find recordings
>with these
>I mean, is it really true that different temperaments enhance for instance,
>various harmonies in the romantic period?
>Vinny
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ron Koval" <drwoodwind@hotmail.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:22 AM
>Subject: Temperaments...
>
>
>> This whole temperament thing is such a tiny niche of the world, even among
>> tuners!  I went through all my years of study as a bassoonist, assuming
>that
>> ET was the norm, yet we trained for listening and adjusting to Just
>> intervals. It wasn't until I really dug into the subject a few years ago
>> that I realized that ET only exists in fixed pitch instruments, such as
>the
>> piano and organ.   So much of the discussion is framed by what we THINK is
>> the norm, not what actually IS the norm.   Think about that a minute.  Not
>> in orchestras, not in bands, not in choirs, not in ensembles, ONLY when
>the
>> piano is brought into the mix does ET enter the picture.
>>
>> It becomes so obvious when you think about the speed of the thirds that we
>> work so hard to control on the piano.  Do you think that an
>instrumentalist
>> would change the speed of the beating of the third, based on where in the
>> scale it lies?  How impossible would that be?!  I can just imagine:
>"Let's
>> see, I'm in the key of F, so the tonic should beat at 7bps, but the
>dominant
>> should beat at around 10 bps... but wait, that's only in one octave... oh,
>I
>> missed that measure, what's the next note?"
>>
>> That means, even though ET is accepted everywhere as the norm, it really
>> occupies a very small corner of musical expression in the world.  Anyone
>> that tries to introduce an alternate tuning runs into the brick wall of
>> ignorance about the specifics of musical tuning.
>>
>> I feel that at this point, the best thing I can do is to speak directly to
>> pianists about the existance of playable temperaments.  I hope to develop
>an
>> article to submit to the magazines that cater to pianists.  Something to
>do
>> with temperaments as just another way for them to add contrasts to the
>> music.  So much of what we do already as techs give pianist greater
>> contrasts, either through regulation, voicing, tuning, or rebuilding.
>>
>> Ron Koval
>> Chicagoland
>>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.

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