tuning HT's by ear

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

My wife plays Chopin's Ballade #1 and a number of other pieces on our piano 
tuned to Barnes Bach Well-Temperament.  The temperaments works pretty well 
for most of what we play.  The Debussy has some 'interesting' chords 
though, The Little Shepherd and The Girl With The Flaxen Hair, Clare de Lune.

Andrew


At 05:46 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Ed Foote wrote:
> > The slight deviations that you will encounter because you can't use
> > sequential, chromatic steps to measure will be of little importance in
> > a WT if your octaves are pleasing to the ear.  I think it was L.
> > Armstrong who said, "If it sounds good, it IS good".
> >  Trust your ears, ET has a woeful habit of making us dependant on the
> > intellectual testing via intervals as opposed to the purely sensual
> > judgement of what the instrument sounds like!  If an octave seems to
> > be shakey, measure it, move it around, and listen to it again.
>
>I just did that and it worked great! Not only was it my most pleasurable
>tuning experience (I felt so free without the ETD), the tuning came out
>great. I used the Kirnberger WT in C-Major.
>
>Hint for all you HT addicts: Play the first line of Chopin's G minor
>Ballade in a temperament such that the fourths are all pure. Mmmmm, it's
>yummy. When you consider what's about to happen in the next several pages,
>a nice calm start with pure intervals adds to the drama.
>
>Wow.
>
>Charles Neuman
>
>
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