[CAUT] Moore vs ET

[Fred Sturm]

Hi Ed,
	Do you have a sense of how big a difference from ET is needed to have  
a pianist really notice and pay attention? In your experience, does  
Moore reach that threshold? If not, what does? What do you use with  
success, not counting actual historical performance practice oriented  
people and occasions? Does something this side of Valotti fit the bill?
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:35 PM, A440A at aol.com wrote:

>
> << > I was thinking that it would be fun to take a piano recording  
> and modify
>
>> the temperament throughout the recording!  It would then be  
>> possible to
>
>> listen to the exact same performance, exact same piano, but with  
>> different
>
>> temperaments. >>
>
> Greetings,
>   Something that hasn't been addressed here, and it is huge, is the  
> effect
> that the inequality of a WT has on the pianist. I have observed that  
> pianists
> play differently when they become accustomed to a well-tempered  
> piano. The
> original pedal markings can once again be used, and the phrasing  
> changes when
> there is a variety of tonal resources instead of all being  
> identical.  Pianists
> who have familiarized themselves with well-temperaments have told me  
> that even
> if faced with an ET piano, they still play the more expressively  
> tempered
> passages with more edge, etc.  They often play a little slower, too.
> 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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