Hi Avery and all: I have for some time been suggesting that Chopin's music might have a significantly different structure when played on the DeMorgan temperament. Well, today was ground center. We begin recording our second temperament CD next week and Enid Katahn came over to try the Chopin piece on the DeMorgan tuning. She has both her pianos at home in more conventional well temperaments and this was the first time for her to try it on a reversed order of tonality. It was amazing. For any that would like to hear it ahead of time, use Jorgensen's numbers and play the Impromtu 66. I have also heard the op. 28 preludes on this tuning and the results are spectacular. Even more surprising was later this afternoon when a local piano pro,(plays for a major country act) came over and tried this "oddball" temperament. He really got into it and was, as he said later, playing totally new voicings before he began playing totally new music. ( it is often hard to get some of the working pros to let their guard down and just pick, I think the tuning sent him out in the zone almost instantly!) I think he may have gotten the idea of a song while wandering fecklessly among the keys. His own piano is kept in a Broadwood tuning, and the reversed order of the DeMorgan was a totally new texture to him, but he doubled his tuning budget for the next project so that we can use several different tunings, what an idea! If this actually happens, I will post the title on the list here. Avery? Have you got a meantone under the jazzer's hands down there in Houston yet? I still think that is going to be a very interesting sound. Keep us posted. Regards, Ed Foote
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC