what's with the new temperaments?(x post)

[Richard Moody]

>Ed says..
    > However, that isn't really what I wanted to post, here, so
back to the
> original reason:
> When  R. Moody replies:
     >>  Which "best efforts"?  The best way (imho) to understand
them
    >> is to  and examine in detail how and why these temperaments
were>
`    >> created.
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> And Ed replies....
>     Perhaps, but I prefer to understand the temperaments by how
the >musicians and listeners react to them.
>    It may be of some interest that Emanuel Ax recently gave a
>masterclass here at Vanderbilt.  He was using a Steinway D tuned
>in the Broadwood's best,  the students were using another D in
ET.
> He was unaware that the pianos were  tuned differently, even
after the >same passages back to back.  The head of  the piano
dept, who did know >that I had tuned them differently, told me
that  he couldn't tell a difference.

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R Moody asks back....

    Ed,,,,, If Emanuel Ax, ,, PLUS a professor at Vanderbilt can't
tell the difference between ET and what you tuned,  why  should we
(tuners) be concerned with tuning something other than ET??

---rm