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[David Ilvedson]

Have you no shame to get married on the Kennedy assassination date?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Dempsey Jr., Paul E" <dempsey at marshall.edu>
To: Pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 11/21/2006 9:59:34 AM
Subject: The Bach Temperament


>Ed, 
>Earlier this month Marshall hosted the West Virginia Music Educators
>Assoc. Convention, a state wide gig. 

>Featured in several of the events were programs by David Breitman, who
>brought his McNulty fortepiano. Also on hand was one of our faculty
>members Phillip Belt instrument, a copy of a Walther.

>Both instruments were tuned in the Lehman/Bach.

>Comments were copious and positive. 

>I'm using this tuning as the default tuning in several practice rooms.

>No one has super glued my door closed yet...;-)

>Regards,

>Paul Dempsey RPT







>Greetings, 
>      Well, I tried it.  The tuning scheme that Mr. Lehman extrapolated
>from 
>the inscription on Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".  The customer was 
>astonished at the effect.  This is a customer that had been using  a
>later 
>well-temperament, and he felt that the Bach tuning was a large
>improvement.  He plays a 
>lot of Chopin, as well as Beethoven, Haydn, and Bach.  
>     It seems that Bach knew what he was doing( does that surprise
>anyone?).  
>I would encourage tuners to try it and have a listen, this thing has
>some 
>serious claim to authenticity and fits well with virtually all the music
>I have 
>heard played on it, jazz and 20th century standard stuff, too.
>Regards, 

>Ed Foote RPT

>Paul E. Dempsey, RPT
>Piano Technician Sr.
>Marshall University
>Huntington, WV
>304-696-5418
>304-617-1149