---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, I attended the recital last night of Radoslav Kvapil who played an entire evening of 19th Century Romantic works on a Steinway D tuned in Romieu's 1/7 Comma Meantone. I'd say this, the crowd was pleased, he got a standing ovation and played a terrific encore piece. No mention nor announcement was ever made about the way the piano was tuned. Mr. Farley says that if you do that, if you put a label on it, that's what ruins it and what invites attacks from people who only want the modern piano to be tuned in ET. He, in fact, has a number of CD's that he has made in 1/7 Comma Meantone and other HT's. I encouraged him to post something on this List about all that's available and the ordering and contact information. He probably won't do it though because he already knows what can happen. For all of those who would be interested, it's just too bad because there are the few who will deliberately make an issue out of it and cause trouble for his business. Call it paranoia if you like, but I know from personal experinces repeated many, many times over that there is a real basis for his trepidation. The 1/7 Comma Meantone is not for everybody, for sure. There is some extraordinary beauty that comes from the music that can't be heard any other way but of course, there is also some occasional harshness that can be offensive to some people's taste. If you want the good side of it, you have to take the bad (if you can call it that) along with it. So, for this reason, many just stick to ET and will never really hear how beautiful a piano can sound because they don't want to hear the rough edges. The idea that there is no one temperament "better" than the other really did reveal itself to me last night. I know that with the EBVT I tune, I can get some of what I heard last night that is so much nicer than ET but really, just a hint of it. But what I can also do is avoid some of the harshness that will cause some people to go absolutely ballistic. I hope Tim does offer his CD's for sale by making a post but if he does, he probably won't give any information about temperament and if he doesn't, you'll know why. If you're interested enough, however, you can try to contact his business on your own. He's in the directory. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/83/18/f2/f3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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