[pianotech] stealth temperaments

[Bill Fritz]

Interesting how we only see our own world, rather than the bigger one.  True in many pursuits.

As a violin player for 56 years, we were only taught to tune A to 440 (or the oboe... talk about the cart before the horse).  After that, it was & still is pure fifths, string to string.  P-U-R-E.  (Probably why I check my pianos today running chromatic fifths up & down as the last test, where off-unisons seem to jump out even more.)

In a string quartet, it's all about listening to each other, making that chord and/or interval sound "right" & pleasing to the ear.  We sure as heck aren't listening for 6.9bps at a F3/A3 major third!

And as to kids liking ET vs Vallotti-Young... well, for any of you who have kids or are around them much... you'll know that it's hard to fool them, much harder than fooling us prejudiced "learned" adults!

Happy Tuning...   Bill Fritz, St Louis




From:
Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com>

To:
pianotech at ptg.org

Subject:
[pianotech] stealth temperaments

Date:
Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:08 +0000



On 5/1/2012 6:13 AM, Joseph Giandalone wrote:

> It seems to me that much of what we hear when we hear music, is what we
> EXPECT to hear – that is, we have absorbed a 12-tone equal-temperament
> scale from the time we were little babies, so that is what we hear.



I might agree with that if the only music heard during one's life was keyboard music.
Remember, ET doesn't exist in the wider world of music - band, choir, orchestra, etc...
Combine that with the lack of ability of many tuners to actually tune ET, even when
they insist that ET is the only proper tuning and you might come to a different conclusion. 
(present company excepted, of course!)


Ron Koval

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