[CAUT] Moore vs ET

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Fred writes:

<< 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?<<

     Not usually.  It seems that most pianists don't notice a third being 
wider than normal until it hits about 17 cents wide.  

<<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? >>

   I use the Moore and Co. as my default tuning in everything from concert 
halls to radio station studios, and I never hear anyone say that they noticed 
the tuning was different. But I do hear a lot of pianists remark on how resonant 
the piano sounds. I still think there is something bland about strict 
equality.  
    The purely classical players usually prefer the Coleman 11 if they are 
playing a wide range of music,(say from 1700-1900) , the Broadwood Best if they 
are playing less of the later 19th century stuff. Some customers have found 
that the Bach tuning as proposed by J. Charles Francis was really what they were 
looking for.  Others, with limited playing ability, and an aversion to key 
signatures with more than 4 accidentals, are well pleased with a Young 
temperament. 
    I have also had a very well known pianist not realize he was playing a 
Young temperament,  even though the student right next to them was playing on an 
ET tuned piano!  
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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