Hi, Not only are his views the same, they are *even* stronger. He doesn't disclose to his clients that they are getting what ever attempt at an HT he uses. Any one who uses *stock* tunings at different times of the humidity cycle is *doomed* to failure. Pianos require a *custom* tuning each and every time. Atleast to my ears. At 09:06 AM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote: >Bill and list, > I believe the concert tuners for Steinway in the basement in NY use >ET for the best pianists in the world. In some of the greatest concert >venues in the world.Does this mean that because they are playing in ET >pianists such as the late Horowitz played with "diminished sensitivity"? >Or that the worlds greatest pianists who went to the worlds greatest >music conservatories are uninformed about what "keyboard tonality is and >how to work with it"? Bill, are your views about HT the same when it is >a concert situation? >Doug Hershberger,RPT > > >Billbrpt@aol.com wrote: >> >> The HT's demand a sensitive pianist. ET teaches people >> to play with very diminished sensitivity because there is no need for it. >> Therefore, when the powerful or quiet tonalities of the HT's are played with >> insensitivity, the music sounds "wrong". >> >> Bill Bremmer RPT >> Madison, Wisconsin > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" drose@dlcwest.com http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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