Re: [Harp-L] Re: Temperments of other instruments

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/16/2007 1:26:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I was  under the impression that pianos are not tuned strictly 12 ET.  We 
do  have a piano tuner on the list perhaps he could comment?  My  
subjective hearing of pianos is that they can and do sound dreadful in  
the wrong key.  Another thought regarding harmonicas is that until  
relatively recently they were employed in ways that exploited their 7  
limit JI tuning scheme.  Was the Golden Melody a reaction to a  perceived 
need?  I can't imagine that I was the only person ever to  write Hohner 
and ask  why the 5 and 9 draw were so dreadfully flat of  the tonic


Currently, pianos are tuned strictly 12 ET unless requested otherwise - the  
only ones that request otherwise are groups interested in recreating authentic 
 period music played on authentic period instruments or the experimental  
music/sound pioneers. Golden Melody was geared towards 12 ET partly through  
focus on melody and not chords and partly on Howard Levy's influence at the time  
- playing in all 12 keys on one diatonic.
 
The Iceman



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