Re: [MMM] Digest Number 440

Hi Judy,

> I guess I could report a success -- in September I had played a
> concert on harpsichord tuned in meantone with a violinist helping
> out, who initially hated the tuning. But I stuck to my guns, despite
> his filling up my inbox with fake obituaries 'Serious gentle-tempered
> violinist killed by meanness blah blah blah...' So I'm playing
> harpsichord with him in a concert on HIS turf Nov. 30, I assumed I
> would tune to his liking that time. But he sentme the flyer and it
> made a selling point about Ms Conrad and her MEAN TEMPERED
> HARPSICHORD. Apparently he took a liking to it!

That sounds great. Quarter comma meantone is a sympathetic
tuning for an accompanist to use, nice to play with and so
I'm sure musicians will get won over to it with time :-).

It is after all what everyone used at the time too, with good
reason.

Robert