confession HT reply

[pianoman]

Hi,
Your second post was much more readable.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis, MO. USA, Earth
pianoman@inlink.com
"Sometimes it is really good to be pleasantly surprised without knowing
what you did right.".

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> From: Marcel Carey <mcpiano@microtec.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: confession HT
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 1998 6:07 AM
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> Someone mentioned that my messages were hardly readable. That is they
turned
> black as soon as you opened them. Did that happen to you too?
> In any case, I switched back to netscape to resend my latest post hoping
to get
> comments and suggestions.
> 
> I must confess that today, I used HT for the first time. The piano was a
small
> Currier spinet. The kind I usually don't enjoy tuning. From observing the
music
> sheets that were laying around on the piano, I could tell the piano was
used by
> beginners, probably children. Using RCT, I just measured the piano's
> inharmonicity, and then using the tools, converted the tuning to a
> "victorianized 1/7 comma well" (usning the numbers given by Bill Bremmer
on this
> list on a previous post). I didn't know what to expect, since I had never
done
> HT by ear. After tuning the temperament section, I tried my usual test.
The
> temperament sounded weard. I kept on tuning using RCT exclusively, did a
second
> pass and then played on the piano. I was surprised. Never before had I
heard
> this type of piano sound so good.
> 
> Thanks to the list for giving me the courage to try this. I will keep on
trying.
> I spoke with a professor at the university and he has agreed to let me do
a
> blind test for temperament tuning on the two pianos in the faculty small
concert
> hall. I will let you know how thing come out. I wonder what HT I should
use
> though. If any of you have suggestions, PLEASE let me know.
> 
> Marcel Carey, RPT
> Sherbrooke, QC