<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Has anyone ever heard of a "Jazz" tuning?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#D8D0C8"> Jarrett likes Werckmeister. See this interesting, though flawed, article (t= he reporter didn't understand much of what Jarrett said about temperaments).= .. http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/miles/rhemile13.htm .......... .  jason kanter . jkanter@rollingball.com= . training consulting services .  sales & service competency training . classroom & web-based= .  in bellevue: 425 562 4127 . cell 425 830 1561 . fax 425 562 = 4132 .  14847 ne 14th st . bellevue wa 98007 .  on orcas: 360 376 2799 . 136 perch tree lane . eastsound wa 98245<B= R> ............................... <BLOCKQUOTE> From: Stéphane Collin <collin.s@skynet.be> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:48:27 +0200 To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Subject: Re: Has anyone ever heard of a "Jazz" tuning? </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>Hi, Dave and Juliet I would tune the bass so the third partia= l (sol a twelfth above do) is quite in tune.  This would cause the fift= h partial (mi) to be less in tune, but in jazzy alterated chords, this is mu= ch less a problem than in the perfect chords of classical music.  What = you get then is a much stronger feel of solid basement for dissonant harmony= , interesting for letting the dissonances sing, without loosing the feel of = tonality too much. Just my own opinion, no more. By the way, I like very much the sound of= Keith Jarrett recordings.  This sounds not only like ET, but mostly li= ke Keith Jarrett.  A friend of mine did a very clear demonstration that= on any temperament (between reasonable limits), you can make any chord soun= d very harmonious or very awful, just by mixing differently the volumes of t= he notes you are playing, and controlling carefully their brillance. Stéphane Collin. <BLOCKQUOTE>----- Original Message ----- From: David and Julie Streit <mailto:pianomann777@hotmail.com>=   To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:39 AM Subject: Has anyone ever heard of a "Jazz" tuning? I had a friend from Arkansas call and ask= me a question.  This friend is learning how to tune and one of her &qu= ot;guinea pigs" requested that her piano be tuned to the "jazz&quo= t; method.  All I can think of is that maybe a "Jazz" tuning = is some kind of newfangled temperament. Maybe Arkansas just has it's own way= of being different. :0) Has anyone ever heard of the "Jazz M= ethod"?  And can you explain it? Thanks, Dave Streit, RPT AAA Piano Service Beaverton, OR </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>