more on this temperament thing

[Richard Moody]

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Subject: Re: more on this temperament thing


|      I wonder what they are doing in Germany or Russia?  If I understand
| correctly, Steinway factory tuners are stretching their tunings into pure
| fifths by the 5th octave.  Is that a departure from perfect ET?
| Regards,
| Ed Foote
|
This (stretching)  is only possible because of ET.  With 5ths all over the
place in HT's you don't have this option.    That is the other thing that
is exasperating about HT's, the tests are either non existant or so
so few it takes 3 times as long and that much more tuning to make
corrections.  And that is just in the bearings.
    I know a machine makes all of this easier, and perhaps the machine, of
all the ironies, only makes historical tuning possible on modern pianos.
So we are content with what the machine imposes....nah I wouldn't say that.
     ---ric