historical tunings - in particular the Moore

Jon Page jonpage@attbi.com
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:58:00 -0400


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At 06:02 PM 6/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe the Moore temperament is also known as the Victorian temperament 
>but I could be wrong.  I just tuned this style on my own Yamaha U1 and I 
>found it to be very rich and colorful (there, hows that for subjective?), 
>especially in the upper tenor and treble.  It's a very mild deviation from 
>Equal and would be a good candidate for use as a primary temperament when 
>tuning for clients.
>
>Corte Swearingen

I am a big fan of the Moore WT and offer it to a lot of my customers. Last 
week I offered it to two sisters who perform duoes.
They have two M&H grands in their summer residence here and I tried an 
experiment since they were willing to try a WT but
I was not fond of the idea of retuning the whole piano (or both) in the 
event they did not like it.

So I tuned one piano, middle third octaves (A2-A5) only in the Moore WT and 
the other piano's middle third octaves in ET. Overwhelmingly
the preferred the ET. Especially the faster beating C-E third. Maybe since 
they specialize in 20th Century composers they prefer this,
or maybe they just prefer ET.

Anyway, it was real easy to put the WT back to ET since it is not that far 
off and there was only one third the piano, the other piano was already 
started...
either way, one of them would have been retuned.

Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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