RE: AW.: Re: re: thoughts on Haba's 2th quartet/Ives/Wys chnegradsky

Johnny Reinhard wrote,

>An interesting historic note about an AFMM concert performance of the Ives
"3
>Quarter-Tone Pieces" is that we had a piano tuner who was convinced that a
>particular piano would rise up about 10 cents from 2 P.M. until 9 P.M.
which
>is when it was to be heard.

>It never rose. . . .
>There was 60 cent difference between the two pianos, and
>the effect...once liberated by previous expectations was tremendous.

>The
>harmonies between them were certainly as interesting, and upon reflection,
>more interesting.

You'd have a much wider variety of intervals and chords in such a tuning.
BTW, if you want to compose in 5-limit JI (�2 cents), two pianos tuned 15
cents apart gives you a full circle of 12 major (root and fifth on one
piano) and 12 minor (root and fifth on the other piano) triads.

Great story, Johnny!