Temperament, A pianist responds

[Richard Moody]

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. That is the whole point of this discussion.  Modern ears
| have been inured by science.  Last month's masterclass experience with a
very
| widely respected teacher from a major music school proves it, at least to
me.
|  This professor/concert artist didn't even realize that the D he used to
| demonstrate Beethoven passages had been tuned in a Young temperament.
Even
| side by side with the other piano in ET, he didn't notice the difference
in
| sound!!
|
| Regards,
| Ed Foote RPT
|

So please explain why it is so important to tune in a different temperament
if the experts can't even hear the difference especially against a piano in
ET?  ---ric