Hearing the difference-a related question

[Greg Newell]

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Steve,
         Congrats on surviving 25 years of teaching! Your terminology with 
the use of "Just temperment"is correct at least as far as we're concerned. 
I'll answer your question with an observation that has been made any time 
on this list and that is that piano work is all about compromises. Anything 
and everything you do in this field seems to have some need to give way in 
order to accommodate something else of perceived importance. Welcome to the 
wonderful world of frustrated bliss!!!

Greg Newell

At 05:02 PM 12/23/2002, you wrote:

>Gentlefolk,
>
>I have been a public school orchestra director for 25 years and am now a 
>fledgling piano tuner. In those 25 years, I have been trying to teach kids 
>to play beatless major and minor triads, that is to say, to play in a Just 
>Temperament, I think. [please take issue and fix anything in here that I'm 
>screwing up in the telling, I'm just looking to learn.]
>
>Now, of course, my cherubs honor beatless intervals more in their 
>omission, than in their commission <grin>, but that brought another 
>question to mind. How can a piano tuned in ET perform with a professional 
>orchestra that is ostensibly trying to perform in Just Temperament? Or is 
>this a non issue?
>
>If this has been discussed before, please point me in the right direction. 
>Thank you for your time!
>
>Steve Borgstrom
>Brooklyn Park, MN
>
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Greg Newell
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