>How did Bill Bremmer's tuning end up the favored temperament when compared to >the ET? (Rhode Island convention? Jon Page was there, maybe he can supply the >dates.) That was Providence, RI, 1998 and Bill Bremmer's EBVT was the favored temperament. http://www.ptg.org/1998/conv/festival.html It was the first time I heard up close and personal a WT. My first reaction to the EBVT was that is sounded much like what I considered some of my better crafted tunings. I had a tilt towards producing a slower beating CE than ET but never knew why. Over the course of the next few years I gravitated to an ETD mostly to help me in the last octave since these old ears aren't what they used to be. But the VT opened up a whole new area to explore and broadened my and my customer's appreciation of different temperaments. Some still prefer ET, conditioned to it I guess but I liken the temperaments to pasta sauce. If someone is used to a simple marinara and are presented with a putanesca or fra diavalo then they might balk at the spiciness. Not that the later are not good but just not what one might be used to or conditioned to expect. I tuned a piano the other day for a shade-tree technician, tuned ET. When I was done he sat down and tested descending 10ths thru the bass. I thought, how sad, he's more interested in the clinical than the musical. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090125/ab8e0742/attachment.html>
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