Temperament use, (was Feldman's piano)

[Don]

Hi Ed,

Have any of your challenges of ET vs HT been done with double blind testing?

At 08:56 AM 3/26/2007 EDT, you wrote:
  
>     I do have a simple challenge:  with two identical pianos, allow me to 
>tune one and anybody else tune the other in ET,(I don't care if it is the
best 
>tuner from any of the makers) and then compare any kind of music on both of 
>them.  I have done this repeatedly and the overwhelming majority of
listeners 
>have preferred the non-ET piano.  Strict equal just doesn't hold up in
side by 
>side comparisons and a growing number of tuners are finding that out.
>Regards,   
> 
>
>Ed Foote RPT 
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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