Fence Sitting HT, humorous?

[Horace Greeley]

Jim,

Yes, but what did Loesser know, anyway?  He also thought that the piano
had some special place in society.  Clearly, delusional thinking...

Have a great weekend, all.

Horace



At 09:20 PM 3/19/1998 EST, you wrote:
>Ed;
>  If we take Bill at his premise that pianos tuned in ET force the performer
>to play "fast and loud" then I believe I have found incontrovertible evidence
>that ET was used extensively in the early 1800's.
>  In Arthur Loesser's book he says  ".........so piano virtuosos -those who
>could play *fast and loud*, make complicated turns and twists and leaps, and
>execute breathtaking successions of double notes- were made into heroes by
>Paris and then obidiently, by the rest of the European continent during the
>1830's and 1840's."
>  So there it is !!! "fast and loud", sure signs of playing in ET huh? :-)
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>
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