Greetings, I posted; <<> It was just this last week that a faculty member of Julliard looked at me and said, "But Bach used equal temperament for everything, didn't he?" Dave asks: He/she did teach theater or dance right? This surely wasn't a MUSIC faculty member, was it?>> Sadly, yes. Touring and giving masterclasses, performing with symphonies(Mozart), paradign of academia. I was amazed that he didn't even realize that the piano he was using for his demonstrations was tuned in a Young, and the one next to it was in ET. The students, on the other hand, were very aware of the difference, so now we have a crop of musicians coming up that are sensitized to nuances that the old guard seems to be oblivious of. This is progress, not the sensational kind like a well-known master suddenly changing directions, but at least the promise of a future with pianists aware of the alternatives. Regards, Ed
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