>Ed says.. > However, that isn't really what I wanted to post, here, so back to the > original reason: > When R. Moody replies: >> Which "best efforts"? The best way (imho) to understand them >> is to and examine in detail how and why these temperaments were> ` >> created. ................................................................. > And Ed replies.... > Perhaps, but I prefer to understand the temperaments by how the >musicians and listeners react to them. > It may be of some interest that Emanuel Ax recently gave a >masterclass here at Vanderbilt. He was using a Steinway D tuned >in the Broadwood's best, the students were using another D in ET. > He was unaware that the pianos were tuned differently, even after the >same passages back to back. The head of the piano dept, who did know >that I had tuned them differently, told me that he couldn't tell a difference. ....................................... R Moody asks back.... Ed,,,,, If Emanuel Ax, ,, PLUS a professor at Vanderbilt can't tell the difference between ET and what you tuned, why should we (tuners) be concerned with tuning something other than ET?? ---rm
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