HT's

[Richard Moody]

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> From: ralph m martin <rmartin30@juno.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: HT's
> Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 4:06 PM
> 
>
> I have heard , many times, classical piano compositions played
first in
> ET followed immediately , played in HT. For most of them I've
actually
> preferred the HT. However, for playing the kind of music I played
for a
> living....ET was a necessity. It is also true that piano is not my
> instrument but I am able to play the same structures on the piano
that I
> do on organ. When played on an HT, they just sound awful to me .
Maybe
> one out of a series is o.K. but when I move chromatically......it's
all
> over.
 

I gotta agree.  Just play the maj sevenths in LH from C to F in any
temp but ET
Yuck.   ET I think gave rise to a whole genre of music based on major
sevenths and I doubt that say Bill Evans could have developed what he
did in anything but ET. 
Richard Moody