[CAUT] HT Question

[Fred Sturm]

Hi Ed,
    Both Moore and Broadwood's Best are in the RCT menu. Moore is listed as
"Representative Victorian Moore" and there are two Broadwood's Best.
 (These latter being recreations of tunings recorded/measured by Mr. Ellis
in the 1880's, having contracted with the Broadwood Co.'s "best" tuner to
tune his piano. The assumption is that the tuner claimed to be tuning equal
temperament, but clearly these are "well-temperaments," and rather piquant
ones at that. Moore is somewhat tamer, but also quite distinct in key color.
My favorite "Victorian" tuning).
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico


On 11/18/05 3:09 PM, "A440A@aol.com" <A440A@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>        You may want to include the Moore and Co. temperament as well as the
> "Broadwood's Best"(from Jorgensen).
> I am finding more and more of my customers prefer the slight relaxation of
> equality in their temperament, and both of these tunings create the historical
> tonal palette without taking the thirds beyond 18 cents.
>   To our "tuner's ears", those wider thirds can sound out of place when
> played in isolation, but musically, the effect is profound and obviously
> attractive to a lot of musicians.  There is even a commercial recording studio
> here on 
> Music Row that has a piano in a slight well temperament.  We are not
> advertising that it is tuned differently, but more and more musicians are
> remarking on 
> the piano's "sound".  They like it and they don't know why!
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Ed Foote RPT 
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
> 
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