Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)

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In a message dated 8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jkanter@rollingball.com writes:


> Subj:Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:) 
> Date:8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:jkanter@rollingball.com">jkanter@rollingball.com</A>
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>       Jason

           Try the moore victorian. It has enough flavor for key colorations 
similar but distant enough fom e.t. to make it interesting. I'll bet he'd 
like this a good deal more and in fact if he thought it was e.t. and didn't 
know in advance it might be the best E.T. he's ever heard. Know what I mean?
    Dale Erwin

> 
> >> Personally I am very intrigued and excited by the sound and feel of WTs. 
>> I purchased the "6 degrees" CD and was very moved by it.
>> 
>> As I have mentioned in the past, I am just starting to tune again after a 
>> lapse of years, and as I am a fulltime training manager at a bank, I only 
>> have a little time to do it. I have a summer place on Orcas Island in the 
>> San Juans, and have struck up a friendship with a pianist/performer who 
>> has several of his own CDs out and plays regularly at the Rosario Resort. 
>> I have been trying to get him interested in historic temperaments, because 
>> I believe his style of music (tapestries of sound largely in the natural 
>> keys) will benefit from a gentle WT.
>> 
>> He recently hired me to tune the 1900 Steinway in this resort's 
>> performance hall. A week before the tuning, I lent him the "Six Degrees" 
>> CD and asked him to listen to it and then tell me what he thought. (Of 
>> course, I expected him to like what he heard.) But his reaction was quite 
>> different. It made him shudder. He found it weird, strange, uncomfortable, 
>> and he earnestly asked me to just tune the piano with a normal ET.
>> 
>> So I promised not to mention it again (he visibly relaxed) ... but I said 
>> that I will one day tune a piano on the island in one of these 
>> temperaments that I think he will like, and I will arrange for him to come 
>> play it for an hour. 
>> 
>> He loved the ET I did; commented to me that he is lingering longer on 
>> chords as he enjoys the harmonics.
>> 
>> My take-away from this experience is that the Six Degrees CD is too 
>> extreme to use as a "lure" to WT. Maybe the choice of the Mozart Fantasie 
>> is too brooding, and its repetition three times in three different 
>> temperaments is too much. Not sure. But I won't use *that* again.
>> 
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