<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ed Foote wrote:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2> <P><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>"</FONT></SPAN>This is a question I have asked myself, so = now I will ask the list to consider it. Could key color, no matter how slight, be = an important missing ingredient and its absence partially responsible for = the piano's long slide from dominion? I wonder if a retune is a necessity to = get out in front again. <SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face=Arial size=2>"</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3>When orchestras or stringed instruments play, or a capella = choirs sing, there is no perceptible key color as they try to play some form of "just" intonation.  I know their "just" is as = imperfect as our ET, but that is their goal.  I guess listening to ET has = perverted me.  I like it!  I'd love to do some HTs for people just for = the variety and for the marketing aspect, but I don't want it on my = piano.  The thirds of ET are just what I like.  Slower thirds of the simple = keys with an HT are OK - different but OK - but the really fast thirds of the keys = I like (B, E, F#, A-flat) are not exciting to me, just annoying.  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3>I'd like to do an HT on your piano, just not = mine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=130023216-11081999><FONT color=#000000 = face="Times New Roman" size=3>dave</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>_______________________________</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>David M. Porritt, = RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2><A href="mailto:dporritt@swbell.net">dporritt@swbell.net</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Meadows School of the Arts</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Southern Methodist University</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Dallas, TX = 75275</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>_______________________________</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>