Greetings, I had an interesting experience last night. I heard Carl Maria von Weber's "Grand Duo Concertante" performed by Peter Sheppard Skaerverd and Aaron Shorr. Lots of shared, isolated,notes between piano and violin, lots of back and forth passages, lots of big chords with the violin skipping up through the notes,etc. Basically, an intonational tour de force. They did not know the piano was in a Coleman 11 tuning, (I didn't know they were going to use that particular D). Sooo.......... I was somewhat interested in what they thought, and after the program I asked. The violinist's response was, "I don't know what you did, but I really like it. The way the harmonics lined up was perfect. I wish all pianos sounded like that". The program contained a variety of other more modern music, and they both thought everything sounded fine. The Coleman has a few thirds tempered 18 cents, some are 10 or less. However, that is NOT what these two noticed! It was, perhaps, the way that the slight changes in consonance and dissonance fit the score that von Weber wrote, or maybe, the significantly lower amount of dissonance overall, (which happens in well-temperament). regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See what's new at http://www.aol.com</HTML>
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