Key Leads and Inertia

[Phillip Ford]

>Stephen Birkett wrote:
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>>One factor that does have a serious impact on all of this is the 
>>mass of the dampers...
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>Stephen,
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>Thanks for bringing this up, it's another reason to be suspicious of 
>the benefits of precision static calibration. It strikes me as 
>absurd ...Oh, I forgot, they should only play very softly.
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>John Hartman RPT

I couldn't agree more.  And now that you mention it, no temperament 
results in all the intervals being pure.  So it strikes me as absurd 
that anyone bothers tuning the d_____ things at all.  They're just 
going to be mostly out of tune anyway when you get done.

Phil Ford BFD