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> And so, you want to base your interval nomenclature on those that
are out of tune? I still don't get it. Why?

****Why? Because that's what hoards of players in conservatories and
music schools have studied and are *used* to. And, I believe that's
what they are going to study for the conceivable future. I haven't
heard of any schools, except for isolated cases at the New England
Conservatory, to offer anything different. >>

Umm, excuse me, but at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music there are quite
a few well-tempered pianos in use. Not only are many of the instructors'
instruments tuned in non-ET, but the practise wing has four rooms in a row
with a Werkmeister, Young, Victorian and ET tunings on them and the students
certainly are becoming familiar with alternatives.
This is happening at more than a few schools, however, the heavyweights
of musical academia are going to move more slowly than those of us out there
that are still in the experimental mode. Their calcified philosophy won't
let them open up very fast to the fact that there is more than one way to
tune a piano. Their loss!
Regards,
Ed Foote
Nashville, Tn.

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> Umm, excuse me, but at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music there
are quite a few well-tempered pianos in use. Not only are many of
the instructors' instruments tuned in non-ET, but the practise wing
has four rooms in a row with a Werkmeister, Young, Victorian and ET
tunings on them and the students certainly are becoming familiar
with alternatives.
> This is happening at more than a few schools, however, the
heavyweights of musical academia are going to move more slowly than
those of us out there that are still in the experimental mode.
Their calcified philosophy won't let them open up very fast to the
fact that there is more than one way to
> tune a piano. Their loss!
> Regards,
> Ed Foote
> Nashville, Tn.

****Well, that's encouraging news, Ed! However, I guess the question
is whether you would differentiate any of these tunings on a
*score...* or if they're all just written the same on the staff. If
they *are* written the same, then how do we know, just by the *score*
which tuning is used? I guess the tuning would have to be indicated
at the top of the score, or some such....

JP