[CAUT] Moore vs ET

[Chris Solliday]

I am told and have experienced myself that with WT (especially ala
Bach/Bradley Lehman which I have been working with of late) the dominant
seventh chords are more tense and so one is less likely to find holding them
desirable. Granted we are into the deep subjective here but as ed says there
are apparent affects on the player. And then there is the issue of pitch and
lowering it (to 435 or 415) seems have a soothing effect as well. Just notes
on notes.
Chris Solliday rpt
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>
> << > 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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