[pianotech] more on nineteen note temperament

[reggaepass at aol.com]

I'm sure there are some out there who have been asked to prepare a piano ala John Cage and this would be along that line.
Hi Greg,




Actually, the tuning project you describe is quite different from prepared piano.  As you have probably already anticipated, you will have to lower many notes considerably if you are going to execute this tuning on a normally scaled piano.  The lower the tension (from standard for a given note), the flabbier the sound.  I have found it helpful to "adjust" the client's expectations accordingly.




Regards,




Alan Eder


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hollister <ghollpiano at yahoo.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 7:41 pm
Subject: [pianotech] more on nineteen note temperament












This guy is a piano teacher and a physics major who wants to explore and compose in  a new direction. It is, in fact, an octave divided into 19 notes and it has apparently been around for a while. I'm trying to figure out how to respond to the idea. I realize we are talking piano anathema here.  Since a 19 note temperament could only make for about 4 1/2 octaves on an 88 note keyboard something would have to give in a big way. Without re-scaling the piano I'd probably have to chooose some bass note (say A2) as a bottom note and then crank down everything above it accordingly. I'm sure there are some out there who have been asked to prepare a piano ala John Cage and this would be along that li
ne. Again, I'm not planning on doing this on rental Steinway.  Greg Hollister RPT


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