Israel writes: << are key differences relevant to musical expression in Schubert? Is he modulating in order to express a different feeling - or is he running the same melodic material through a whole bunch of different keys in order to demonstrate how cleverly he can do it? In the former case, he would be interested in accentuating the key differences - hence WT. In the latter case, the more outlying keys would be rather unpleasant to listen to - in which case he would be more likely to favor something approaching ET. Any takers out there for this approach? I am not a Schubert expert by any means... >> Nor I, however, I have seen a rough census of Schubert's key choice in his piano works. His usage of them is almost exactly the same proportion as Mozart, Beethoven, etal. The keys with the most highly tempered thirds are the least used, those with the purest thirds are the most used, and the progression through those in between graduated. When graphed, these composers key choice mimics the same shape as the thirds in a well temperment. I don't think this is coincidence. I have also listened to Schubert played in an A/B comparison on a Coleman 11 and ET. The difference is profound to me, and has been instantly recognized by rooms full of piano techs. The ET rendition was almost universally considered lifeless and boring in comparison. That is the only way I know to form some sort of value judgement on this question, listen to the same piece on two different tunings, and I encourage any tech that has questions on the value of WT's to do this. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26h mpgID=62%26bcd=DecemailfooterNO62)</HTML>
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