I would hazard a guess: musicians in general are used to playing on out of tune pianos...poor unisons is what they usually hear, not all those reverse well tunings. This is a fact of life with the piano. It doesn't stay in tune as well as we would like and it costs $ to tune, so people don't tune their pianos enough... David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:41:17 +0200 Subject: Re: Temp. comparisons: >Richard Moody wrote: >> >... it just shakes my preception of things as they are if it is >> true >> > that musicians and tuners alike cannot hear immediately that this >> is far >> > away from ET. Must admit.... am a bit confused right now. >> >> Its no biggie. My theory is, perhaps some people are more >> sensitive to it than others. Meantone is not usually heard on >> pianos so yes it should sound different. Meantone is the one temp >> furtherst from ET. But practice a piece in it for 10 minutes and >> see if you don't loose "perception" of it. Stay close to C >> though. Play some Christmas Carols or folk songs and see if they >> don't sound "sweeter". The minors sound more minor. Yes there is >> a lot of character to Meantone. Meantone by its self means 1/4 >> comma producing pure 3rds. The others get into wider 3rds and >> less of a wolf and towards WTs >I can pretty much buy this Ric. Tho I have run BB's EBVT on a piano >at the school for almost two years now. Students pretty much dont >notice the difference.... even when I point out a few things to them. >But I hear it right off. In close keys everything is so .... well easy >going... relaxed... almost sleepy depending on the passages, where as >moving outwards things get quite a bit more lively til in the end >there are intervals and chords that are pretty much shouting at you. >What unsettles me is that, while I have lots of music in my background >I have little formal music education, yet I seem to have difficulty >understand why any trained musician doesnt immediately and decidely >react to the change in musical relationships. Ok... I had church choir >from when I was 5, and piano lessons from about the same time til I >got fed up around 15. And my mom was a very good pianist who managed >to get quite far before she married.... but how is that line up with >formal ear training and music theory at University level. Just what is >it they are teaching these people ? >> The discussions about "not hearing it" are usually WT vs ET. >> Also..... truthfully I cannot hear it on that recording >> because.... my soundcard is on the fritz. >Grin... well that is allowed. >> But I have heard MT a >> lot on my own piano, that is where it is tuned now. It does give >> the A major Prelude (Chopin )... well....a different >> t. ---ric >I would imagine it does. Thanks Ric for more interesting reading. >Cheers >RicB >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >UiB, Bergen, Norway >mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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