<HTML>In a message dated 8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jkanter@rollingball.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:) Date:8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time From:<A HREF="mailto:jkanter@rollingball.com">jkanter@rollingball.com</A> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet       Jason</BLOCKQUOTE>            Try the moore victorian. It has enough flavor for key colorations similar but distant enough fom e.t. to make it interesting. I'll bet he'd like this a good deal more and in fact if he thought it was e.t. and didn't know in advance it might be the best E.T. he's ever heard. Know what I mean?     Dale Erwin <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Personally I am very intrigued and excited by the sound and feel 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 lapse of years, and as I am a fulltime training manager at a bank, I only have a little time to do it. I have a summer place on Orcas Island in the San Juans, and have struck up a friendship with a pianist/performer who has several 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 his style of music (tapestries of sound largely in the natural keys) will benefit 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 and 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 earnestly 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 that I will one day tune a piano on the island in one of these temperaments that 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 chords 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 temperaments 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> </HTML>