Grieg Experiment

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Ric writes:

<<  Clearly this instrument needs 

a lower pitch. That is to say if one does not find the killer octave 

syndrom an attractive characteristic... and I do know pianists who 

actually do like that kind of sound.  I guess the point is that one can 

in some cases quite radically alter the response picture of the 

instrument by changing the overall string tension. >>

        Did anyone consider that Grieg may have been writing for a different 
intonational palette than our modern "perfected" ET?   The pitch was different 
in Grieg's time, and virtually all the evidence supports that the temperament 
was, too.  What would the results would have been like had the piano been 
tuned not only at the original pitch, but also in the style of late 19th century 
tuners?   


Ed Foote RPT 
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