Out of tune(probably an argument, here)

[Barbara Richmond]

Ed,

That's an interesting perspective.  Unless there are some really screaming
unisons, it's usually the voicing that slaps me across the face.  But,
that's just the kind of girl I am.  :-)

Barbara Richmond

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Subject: Out of tune(probably an argument, here)


> Greetings,
> Chuck writes:
> << it also makes us acutely
> aware when "a piano isn't doing what it oughta".  I hear a lot of the
latter
> on some old jazz recordings especially.  Baffling how some of these kings
of
> piano artistry and creativity had to suffer this misfortune.  Wonder if
> there's any way to digitally clean up the tuning on old recordings... >>
>
>        Maybe, but there will be a change in the message.  To some, it will
be
> an improvement, ( to many, nothing would be noticed, either way), to
others,
> a loss,.  What that loss means depends on the listener, ("meaning" is a
> product of a message being received, it is NOT a unique property of the
message,
> itself).
>     It borders on conundrum-ness for a tech to be promoting anything other
> than "in tune", but exactly what is "in tune".  Certainly not an equally
> tampered scale!  There, almost everything is out of tune, and through the
trick of
> making it all the same, we learn to not listen to the dissonance, (for the
> simple price of foregoing hearing consonance).  Is this same fixation on
exactitude
> good for other aspects of music?

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>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
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> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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