more reflections on Prinz

[Farrell]

Which exact temperament did you use?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: more reflections on Prinz


> At 09:36 PM 1/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Charles writes:
> ><< I guess I didn't know what I was in for, even after I read Ed's
warning
> >(about habit-forming pure intervals) on his CD's. Life will never be the
> >same again.
> >  >>
> >
> >Welllllll,  I tried to warn ya!   Many people think those warning labels
are
> >for humor, but nothing could be further from the truth.  ET loses a lot
of
> >its attraction after the ear becomes accustomed to some real key color
and
> >there have been several writers tell me that they would never listen the
same
> >again.  This has got to mean something, no?
> >Regards,
> >Ed
> >
>
> Well, I took the plunge and offered a non-ET tuning to a piano teacher.
She
> asked, "What will it do for me"?
> I said that it will give more tone color, she said without hesitation, "Do
it".
>
> I loaded a representative Victorian temperament in the Verituner and tuned
> away.  The results were a pleasant
> surprise. Fuller, warmer, was her initial response.; loving it - days
> later. One of her adult students told me the
> piano never sounded better and will probably want something similar on his
> piano next tuning.
>
> There's no turning back...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon Page,   piano technician
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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