<HTML>In a message dated 3/13/02 10:57:09 AM Central Standard Time, From:    davidlovepianos@earthlink.net (David Love) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Not clear yet whether Beethoven's piano wasn't tuned in ET (I am inclined to think that it very well might have been based on the preliminary evidence that I've seem--more on that later), but certainly it didn't have the sustaining power or as powerful a bass and many pianists make adjustments to the pedal markings accordingly.</BLOCKQUOTE> I'm not inclined to believe ET was possible as we know it on the instruments of that period (see Conrad's remarks), only in theory.  In other words, even if were trying for it, which I still doubt, it really could not have come out to be ET the way we think of it today, the same as the pianos didn't come up to today's standards. But in any case, the temperament wouldn't have nearly as much to do with the conflict of sounds which in this performance amounted to unpleasant dischords as the very long sustain.  If I were a critic writing a review in the newspaper, I would have blasted him for it. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>