Richard Moody wrote: > > > My point is one cannot tell the difference by listening to a piece being > played. If there were such people they > would be volunteering by the dozens to assist Don Rose in identifying the > temperament on an old recording. Hmmm... methinks this is more a matter of training than anything else. There has never been a need to develope such a skill, certainly not in this century in any case. We cant really be sure how clever musicians and tuners were at such 150 years ago... but recent reading in Owens book would lead me to hesitate in drawing any conclusions without a bit of real research. > No one has demonstrated they can tell a > particular piano is not tuned to ET. It has been pointed out that in a > seminar of piano tuners, not one realized a piano was tuned different from > ET. For those who might be skeptical simply try a blind test. Blind tests will simply demonstrate present level of skill / awareness... not what is or is not possible. People are capable of developing the strangest skills to the millionth degree when they first put their minds to it. Witness the wide reciever.... one of the strangest things I have ever seen... here you have some guy who practices and practices and developes the most unbelievable ability to run down the field, manuviour (sp) himself into the most fantasic acrobatic positions, often leaping high into the air, or throwing himself laterally reaching out with his fingertips to tip this incomming missle from its present trajectory, making it juggle momentarily in mid air, then miracurously somehow gathering this missile into his hands whilst being assaulted by another player desperatly trying to disrupt the whole process.... and for WHAT ???? grin... I say if a human can develope and refine what are essentially ridiculous skills like these, then another human could quite likely do the same for hearing just about any temperament in any situation.. Heck... when you come to think of it... what we do for a living isnt really all that far removed from the ability you describe > > > >Ziz iz ol obot ze Zubconziusnez > > Is what the emperor's taylors said, or do you mean its only > subliminal? ---ric -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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