ric B wrote: New student today, same reaction....nothing. She'd played for 3 hours without having a clue about whether or not anything had been done. I asked three or four times in different wording if she'd noticed anything out of the usual and she said no. Finnally I said, well go back to the piano and play some more and just keep in the back of your mind that something about the instrument is not as it usually is. <snip> As dissapointing as this feels now, it really is the mark of the mild well temperaments that when tested this way, they just play fine. What you may want to try, (given the chance again) is to have her play another piano for a while and then go back to this one. That should make a bigger impression. That was what I understood we were going to try to do; set up two rooms with instructions for pianists to write about how the instruments responded, and then see if there was a preference based on temperament.... We could even reverse the tunings and do it again in 6 months or so, to even the odds. Ron Koval _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
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