Hi Ed, I have a question. Is there a table or some reference, that says which HT, sounds best with which composer? How does a person determine which piece of music, sound best in a particular HT? Thank you. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: <A440A@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Another Recital in 1/7 Comma Meantone > Greetings all, > Some housekeeping here in the errata dept: > > Bill Bremmer writes: > >Now, as for the EBVT, Ed Foote's proclamation still holds: No one has > >EVER been able to tune it other than myself. > > No proclamation here on my part, I believe Bremmer himself stated that > he hadn't seen anyone "get his EBVT right". And I believe him. > > Bremmer again, > >As Ed Foote says, the only way that ANYONE will ever be interested in tuning > > any kind of temperament other than ET is if they can do it with deviations > >of an FAC program. > > A more correct, (and logical) interpretation of what I said was that > the information for aurally tuning the temperaments has languished for 50 > years in the work of Barbour and Veroli, while the tuning community at large > shunned even their investigation. It was not until the programmable > machines allowed the working tuner easy reproduction of the temperaments > that there has been a resurgence in their use. A short survey of temperament > awareness over the last 50 years seems to make this obvious. > > And in a twist of logic, Mr. Bremmer concludes: > > >Since I never do that, I don't teach that. So what I > >do, whatever that is, it is not worth teaching, in Ed Foote's opinion. > > That is not my opinion. Anyone's teaching methods will show their worth > in the actions taken by the students, it matters little what other > "teachers" say. I am trying to convince as many technicians as possible to > begin investigating a wider variety of temperaments. I do this in my own > way. If Mr Bremmer has a different approach, go for it, but don't hold me > or others responsible for its success. > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT >
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