[CAUT] WT intonation/violin

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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
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