RE: Good work, Joe, going to the source re Mr. Woolhouse 's position

Dave Hill wrote,

>One music professor told me that he
>had always been told that the deviations in pitches
>introduced by equal temperament were so small that
>they had a negligible effect on the way the music
>sounded. When he heard side by side piano performances
>of simple pieces in equal temperament and mean tone
>temperament he said that to his surprise he found that
>there was a big difference and that to him the mean
>tone version sounded better than did the equal tempered
>version. After having heard the comparison, his reaction
>was that it seemed to him difficult to understand how
>equal temperament could have been universally adopted
>by the music world.

Good work Dave! We need to expose all music professors to this!