HT wine-tasting (was HT tests)

[Jason Kanter]

So let us suppose, *hypothetically*, that we had two recordings on CD.

Suppose these recordings are of:

the same professional pianist/artist, 
playing the same program of classical music of the last century or so, 
on the same *model* of piano (though a different piano in a different hall), 
recorded with the same equipment...

but one of the recordings is tuned in ET by one tuner,
and the other recording is tuned in a very bold WT by another tuner.

How would we conduct a *truly scientific* test to examine the musical reality of this *hypothetical* set of CDs?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: HT tests


| This is a fun idea. But won't the "test" be greatly affected by the
| piece/key your unsuspecting victims first play?
| 
| Alan Barnard
| Salem, MO
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
| Behalf Of Richard Brekne
| Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:58 PM
| To: PTG
| Subject: HT tests
| 
| 
| Ed, Ron K, and other interested
| 
| I just put this Ellis #4 Broadwood best on one of the main practice
| grands today. I wanted to check my Tunelab procedure against what RCT
| comes up with and found near perfect agreement. And I wanted to force
| the pianists to be on an instrument that has this tuning in order to
| judge better any reactions. The only person who knows about this is the
| Harpsichord Instructor and he came an listened today, and noticed
| immediately the change from ET. Tho he tunes by aural means in non ET
| all the time as that is the accepted norm here for harpsichord.
| 
| We speculated that all the harpsichordists would notice right off if put
| to it, and that neither of us would be too surprised if the pianists by
| and large do not notice. We will see in a few days I suppose. No
| comments so far on the two uprights I tuned thus last week.
| 
| Tomorrow I do the one of the grands in the professors room I mentioned
| last week. He will be told to just compare the two, with no hint of
| whats up, and with the understanding that he is not expected to react in
| any particular way. If he doesnt like the instrument he will tell me so,
| like wise if he does.  He is also aggreed to not attempt to influence
| any of his students with his own thoughts or reactions... but sit back
| and observe what any of them have to say as well.
| 
| I will keep you posted.
| 
| Cheers
| RicB
| 
| --
| Richard Brekne
| RPT, N.P.T.F.
| UiB, Bergen, Norway
| mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
| http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
| 
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