OFF (*was: neurology)

[Paul Chick (EarthLink)]

I thought that was one of the points of HT's

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: OFF (*was: neurology)


> In view of Susan's story about the Chopin prelude, has anyone considered
> that WT's might create a different problem in that the keys with no
> accidentals might sound too clean?  Everybody talks about the "excitement"
> of the more remote keys.  How about the lack of "excitement" in the keys
at
> the other end of the spectrum.  Might not somebody playing in WT find that
> the key of C sounds a bit dull.
>
> David Love
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: May 05, 2002 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: OFF (*was: neurology)
>
>
> > At 02:12 PM 5/5/2002 -0400, Ed wrote:
> > >    Reason's for Chopin's choice of keys has been ascribed to both the
> extra
> > >brilliance found in the remote keys (In WT) helping his weak frame
> produce
> > >strength of sound, and also to the hand positions he preferred. This
> doesn't
> > >definitively explain why he wrote the way he did, though, so I don't
> > >know,either.
> >
> > One little experience -- I went to Jim Coleman, Sr.'s class at a
> convention,
> > where he talked about his temperament using untempered fifths -- the one
> > which leads to very wide octaves. We had his usual comparison between
that
> > equal but wide temperament and another piano which he had tuned. We were
> > fooled, as usual, and failed even to note that the second piano was
tuned
> > in a very non-equal temperament, one of his own quite strong Wells. We
> only
> > twigged when he ran successive thirds for us.
> >
> > Anyway, one of the pieces he played was a Chopin Prelude, and it sounded
> > really spicy and nice. Then he transposed it so that it was in a simpler
> > key, with the narrow thirds, etc. YUCK!!!! Bland, gutless, no strength
> > to the harmonic motion, it just SAT there. An eyeopener for me. Still,
> > it was better than meantone, with the bad fifths as well ... (Just My
> Opinion,
> > Folks ...) (Wearing Conrad's newest, best flamesuit.)
> >
> > Susan
> >
> >
>