OFF (*was: neurology)

[Farrell]

> > Might not somebody playing in WT find that
> > the key of C sounds a bit dull.

I suspect that will happen with some folks, others will hear calmness and a soothing soft sound perhaps.

Perhaps it is not unlike those that prefer Terminator movies, and those that enjoy a tender love story. I don't think that any of these temperaments is a one-size-fits-all thing.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Chick (EarthLink)" <tune4@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: OFF (*was: neurology)


> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
>