Hello Friends,
Though meantone is the genre of the early baroque, it has much to offer
the contemporary musician, -especially the jazz musician. The quasi pure
intervals, particularly the seventh chords are simply ethereal. Even the wolves
have an expression which could really be useful for certain musical
applications. I hope that no talented composer will be denied access to
meantone or live and die without being exposed to it.
Eventually someone will surely compose a hit in meantone, especially with
the proliferation of synthesizers equipped to play in it. After this happens we
will all start offering it to the general public and will be regularly requested
to tune it. Nobody should fear that day, as equal temperament is by far the
most difficult of temperaments to tune.
IMHO tuners are artists and as such have artistic liberty to tune as they
wish. The only time they don't is when it is for another artist, as in the case
of a concert. Here the concert artist or the composer is the lead artist so the
tuner must stay within their reasonable expected parameters.
I hope we will continue to educate the music world on the value of
various temperaments and the seasoning with which they can enhance music.
-Mike Jorgensen RPT --but longs to be a true "tuning artist."
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