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<div>Interesting how we only see our own world, rather than the bigger one. True in many pursuits.</div>
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<div>As a violin player for 56 years, we were only taught to tune A to 440 (or the oboe... talk about the cart before the horse). After that, it was & still is pure fifths, string to string. P-U-R-E. (Probably why I check my pianos today running chromatic fifths up & down as the last test, where off-unisons seem to jump out even more.)</div>
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<div>In a string quartet, it's all about listening to each other, making that chord and/or interval sound "right" & pleasing to the ear. We sure as heck aren't listening for 6.9bps at a F3/A3 major third!</div>
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<div>And as to kids liking ET vs Vallotti-Young... well, for any of you who have kids or are around them much... you'll know that it's hard to fool them, much harder than fooling us prejudiced "learned" adults!</div>
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<div>Happy Tuning... Bill Fritz, St Louis</div>
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<div dir=ltr>On 5/1/2012 6:13 AM, Joseph Giandalone wrote:<br>
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> It seems to me that much of what we hear when we hear music, is what we<br>
> EXPECT to hear – that is, we have absorbed a 12-tone equal-temperament<br>
> scale from the time we were little babies, so that is what we hear.<br>
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<div>I might agree with that if the only music heard during one's life was keyboard music.</div>
<div>Remember, ET doesn't exist in the wider world of music - band, choir, orchestra, etc...</div>
<div>Combine that with the lack of ability of many tuners to actually tune ET, even when</div>
<div>they insist that ET is the only proper tuning and you might come to a different conclusion. </div>
<div>(present company excepted, of course!)</div>
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