HT's are certainly an important part of one's repertoire, especially these days with a resurgence in interest. Learning to do them aurally does provide quite a challenge though and an ETD that offers HT programming is definitely a plus if not a must. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:23 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Claudio Di Veroli & Equal Temperament David, I do agree with that as well. However, it seems that it is the tuners who are making it their business of selling the historical temperaments, rather than the customers requesting them because of their knowledge and expertise. I think it is a bad precedent for the tuners to have to sell particular temperaments to musicians who have doctorates in their field if they don't know they need it. It sets us up for becoming the experts at this temperament appropriateness selection process. There is very little time spent on temperament in collegiate music education. Apparently, music academia doesn't see it as a high priority. Jeff o----- Original Message ----- From: Porritt, David <mailto:dporritt at mail.smu.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Claudio Di Veroli & Equal Temperament Jeff Wrote.... Big snip --- My number one and most important rejection of the idea of the implementation of historical temperaments is that it is completely beyond the scope of reality of expectation to impose that piano tuners should be expected to be experts in the realm of temperament history as it relates to musical composition. It simply isn't our call. Jeff Tanner While we needn't be experts on temperaments in different eras, (they all disagree on it anyway) I think we should be able to provide temperaments when asked. Our credibility as professionals is certainly enhanced if we can converse with people intelligently about these things. We are tuners after all and we should have more than one product to offer. If a professor here says he wants a Vallotti temperament for a recital (or class or demonstration) I think it would be considered a reasonable request that I'm glad I can provide. I think my stature would diminish if I just replied "duh, ET or nothing". dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090130/93cb6a52/attachment.html>
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