OFF LIST!!!Re: Songwriters, Temperaments (*was: neurology)

Charles Neuman piano@charlesneuman.net
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:06:36 -0400 (EDT)


Bill Bremmer wrote:
>
> Now that that's out of the way, what about the real question:  isn't the
> arbitrary use of ET in fact imposing a specific set a values upon the public
> without their informed consent?

You could argue that since many (or do you think it's most?) ET tunings
are really Reverse Well, then many people are getting a WT (a "reverse"
one) without their consent. And that's considered OK. And if the tuner
purposely choses a HT that is about as mild as the Reverse-WT the customer
might otherwise get, then that's really no different, right? And then you
could say that really a slightly less mild HT is far better than the mild
Reverse-WT the customer would get otherwise, so that would be OK to use
without the customer's consent, too.

So, the question (of tuning HT without consent) might be answered by
determining whether Bill's EBVT is much stronger of a HT than a typical
Reverse-WT is.

What do you think?

Charles




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