more on this temperament thing

A440A@AOL.COM A440A@AOL.COM
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:10:35 EDT


Greetings, 
 I wrote: 
<<<< Consider that Chopin's music on a WT often produces a pure melodic line 
over a very tempered 
harmony.  >>
 
<<Both Steinway artists here in Nashville have told me they are never going 
back to ET >>

Tom writes: 
>>I'm guessing that these artists are not playing Chopin in Nashville.  Could 
it be that the country tunes they play in Nashville are mostly in the keys of 
C, D, G, and A?  << 

  Umm, no, actually, Enid Katahn has done the playing for our 
I would actually like to learn a non-equal temperament that favors the keys 
of C and G.  So many of the pianos I tune have young students who play the 
piano.  They would never play an Ab major triad. They play mostly the white 
notes.  On little spinet pianos.  Little Betsy Ross spinet pianos.  
Wurlitzers, too...sorry, I was spiraling down, there...

Would it be possible to use a temperament which would maximize the 
in-tuneness of all the white notes?  Is there an un-equal temperament that 
would serve this purpose?  

Tom Sivak>>



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