A great deal of church music is written or played in 3 flats. How would a mild WT, like the Coleman 10 or 11 do for that key? Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:23 AM To: 'Pianotech List' Subject: RE: Temperament selection The Coleman 10 will be even milder and Ron Koval has developed one he calls the "Penny" which is even milder. BTW, he also has a slightly stronger 1.5 which is very close to the Coleman 10. I prefer to keep WTs very mild when tuning them and agree that it gives a greater sense of sonority to many pianos-especially small ones. I think this impression is largely due to the purer thirds in the keys with fewer sharps and flats which is where most people tend to go when testing an instrument. If you did side by side testing on pianos with ET versus WT by playing only in keys with 5 or more sharps and flats, I'm not sure that the WT would emerge victorious. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Porritt Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:50 AM To: 'Pianotech List' Subject: RE: Temperament selection The Coleman 11 is a safe, small departure from ET. dp ____________________ David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Scott Jackson Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:47 AM To: 'Pianotech List' Subject: RE: Temperament selection With so many temperaments to choose between, could you suggest an easy "Well Temperament" to start with? Scott Jackson -----Original Message----- From: Jon Page [mailto:jonpage at comcast.net] Sent: Friday, 13 April 2007 22:07 To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Temperament selection (was: Franz Mohr in Moscow) >... Wurlitzer console and spinet and micro-grand pianos..."Harsh whiney crap." ET does have it's limitations on small pianos. A Well Temperament placed on these types really does make them more sonorous. Sounding better than you could imagine, taking the harshness and edginess out which ET puts in. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070414/01bdd2fd/attachment.html
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