Bill, What breaks and where in the Steinway scales are you referring to? 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.". ---------- > From: Billbrpt <Billbrpt@aol.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: HT's > Date: Saturday, March 14, 1998 6:36 PM > > In a message dated 98-03-14 04:27:22 EST, you write: > > << Suppose Helmholtz and Theodore Steinway designed a piano around Equal > Temperament. Would you still have a guestion about how to tune it ? > Richard MooET >> > > I don't suppose that they did. Did Helmholtz ever meet Steinway? Is this > simply fiction like Dracula meeting Frankenstein? > > Why are the breaks in a Steinway scale at the very places where one would have > a wider half step such as in a Victorian Temperament (VT)? I think it is > because the Steinway piano is a marvelous example of Victorian era technology > and should be tuned that way, in a VT, to produce the most authentic sound. > Even though the tuners of the period thought in terms of ET, their > temperaments weren't really entirely equal. Those breaks in the scale are not > coincidence. > > Helmholtz book belongs on the shelf along side Freud's, Darwin's, Karl Marx's > and Mary Shelly's. > > Bill Bremmer RPT > Madison, Wisconsin
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