Temperament use, (was Feldman's piano)

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Double-blind testing sounds kind of scientific. :-)

My personal experience is that with two fine pianos from the same 
piano maker, one tuned to ET and the other to a mild HT, the one with 
the HT always "plays better", "has a much better tone" "is more 
responsive" .... yada yada yada.

I usually don't dis-abuse piano professors and concert artists of 
their notions.

Andrew Anderson

At 02:51 AM 3/26/2007, you wrote:
>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,
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