Standing on shoulders and jumping off

[Billbrpt@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/16/98 11:22:27 PM Central Daylight Time, ilvey@a.crl.com
writes:

<< Back long ago Kurtsweil came out with their keyboard which 
 emulated a grand piano.  If you played the G# below middle C it 
 had a noticeable beat in the unison.  Every single one of them 
 had the same beat in the G#.  Maybe it made it more piano like 
 to the designers? >>

Interestingly enough it corresponds to the HT "wolf" key (although this alone
would not qualify it as a true "wolf" interval by definition).  

Sooner or later it will be realized that the smoothest most perfectly
compromised scale on the piano only drains it of much of the music it has to
offer.  After the majority of the tuning profession finally succeeds in making
the acoustic piano sound like an electronic keyboard, the tide will begin to
turn in the other direction.  Unequal temperaments and tempered octaves will
be the new goal.  By the time it happens though, I'll be too exhausted to say,
"I TRIED to tell you!"

Sigh...If only those engineers new how wonderful a 1/7 comma meantone with
it's "mini-wolf" sounds.  It's way over their heads though.  It will be the
year 2020 before they'd ever consider it.

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin