SV: more on this temperament thing

[Ola Andersson]

Nice to hear 

I very much like the Young myself.
I usually end up playing in the Db key 
and the velttemperert klavier ...woow.

Ola Andersson

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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 6:21 PM
Subject: more on this temperament thing


> Greetings all, 
>     A very interesting morning over at Vanderbilt. Earlier this year, I had 
> tuned pianos in three adjacent practise rooms for a comparison.  In one, I 
> had good ol' ET,  in another I had Jorgensen's extrapolation that we call the 
> Broadwood's Best, and in the third room, Thomas Young's ideas were made 
> manifest.  
>    I was being interviewed by a student inre the effects of temperament, when 
> I asked him about the three practise rooms. He said, "Johnson, myself, and 
> two others are always fighting to get in the Young room", and he knew of 
> several others that have become very partial to the Victorian sounds of the 
> Broadwood.  I asked about the ET room and he said that is always open, 
> because nobody wants to play that one!  His comment was that it sounded 
> boring, now.   
> (These are three new Yamaha C 2 pianos).  He wanted to know if there couldn't 
> be more unequal temperaments put in place, and I suggested that he make this 
> request to the head of the piano dept/ and or the Dean.  He said that the 
> piano students would love to petition the dept. to add more temperaments, so 
> here we go!
>    In discussing this with a prof. I learn that the piano students are 
> suddenly asking new questions, and more importantly, playing with more 
> expression than they have previously.  He wanted more info, but said to keep 
> up whatever I was doing, because the students were obviously more musical in 
> their playing.  This is good news.  
>     I got the impetus to do this from Charles Ball and  Tom Seay(Mary?  did 
> you say you were doing this too?), down in Texas, where they had a few rooms 
> in temperaments.  I would like to encourage any caut to consider doing this.  
> I have my charts( from the "Six Degrees" CD), on each door with a one 
> paragraph description of the era of that particular tuning developement. If 
> anybody wants to use them for a like project, feel free to do so.  I think 
> this is making a real positive difference,and the students are getting 
> enthused. 
> Regards, 
> Ed Foote RPT  
> 
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