In my view, yes. But then I’m often surprised by the general lack of response to differences in temperament by many classical musicians. To me, they’re simply too strong—but then I feel that way about the Vallotti as well. Also, for me, I don’t like well temperaments on real bright pianos. The enhancement of the upper partials highlights the exaggerated interval dissonances too much and gives a much greater sense of “out of tune” to me. Real low tension, warmer sounding instruments are where these types of tunings sound “better”. Though, admittedly, I’m not a great fan of making the piano more out of tune than it is already.
David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of KeyKat88 at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:26 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Werkmeister III /Kirnberger temperaments
Greetings,
Has anyone ever tuned Werckmeister or Kirnberger and then had any complaints from local artists?
I tune a Yamaha C3 for a chamber music club and I switched to a Vallotti a year ago...no complaints. Some of these players have perfect pitch ya know, but I ll be darned, no one complained yet. Now, I want to get more brave and go to a Kirnberger. Am I pushing my luck? What say anyone?
Julia Gottshall
Reading, PA
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