[CAUT] WT intonation/violin

[Jim Busby]

Hi Ed,

Is there a chance that another piece might NOT have "lined up" with this
temperament? Did you just get lucky? I'm always worried that a piece
will not be in the "smooth keys" (my words) and go opposite of what you
wrote. I guess that's why I opt for the horrible ET. (But you have
gotten me to use different WTs in studios where several teachers love
it!) 

Thanks.
Jim Busby BYU



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Subject: [CAUT] WT intonation/violin

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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