<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>Personally I am very intrigued and excited by the sound and fee= l of WTs. I purchased the "6 degrees" CD and was very moved by it.= As I have mentioned in the past, I am just starting to tune again after a l= apse of years, and as I am a fulltime training manager at a bank, I only hav= e a little time to do it. I have a summer place on Orcas Island in the San J= uans, and have struck up a friendship with a pianist/performer who has sever= al of his own CDs out and plays regularly at the Rosario Resort. I have been= trying to get him interested in historic temperaments, because I believe hi= s style of music (tapestries of sound largely in the natural keys) will bene= fit from a gentle WT. He recently hired me to tune the 1900 Steinway in this resort's performance= hall. A week before the tuning, I lent him the "Six Degrees" CD a= nd asked him to listen to it and then tell me what he thought. (Of course, I= expected him to like what he heard.) But his reaction was quite different. = It made him shudder. He found it weird, strange, uncomfortable, and he earne= stly asked me to just tune the piano with a normal ET. So I promised not to mention it again (he visibly relaxed) ... but I said t= hat I will one day tune a piano on the island in one of these temperaments t= hat I think he will like, and I will arrange for him to come play it for an = hour. He loved the ET I did; commented to me that he is lingering longer on chord= s as he enjoys the harmonics. My take-away from this experience is that the Six Degrees CD is too extreme= to use as a "lure" to WT. Maybe the choice of the Mozart Fantasie= is too brooding, and its repetition three times in three different temperam= ents is too much. Not sure. But I won't use *that* again. </BLOCKQUOTE> || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| <BLOCKQUOTE>From: A440A@AOL.COM Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:53:52 EDT To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Temp. comparisons: </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE><TT>Ric writes: >    I wonder if someone can offer mp3 samples (legally o= f course) > as tests?   I am sure I posted this earlier, but for any that were kill-filing all temp-related stuff...... There is a comparison between MT, WT, and ET using a STeinway and Mozart <B= R> fantasy at: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/399/six_degrees_of_tonality.html Regards, Ed Foote </TT></BLOCKQUOTE><TT> </TT> </BODY> </HTML>