source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:57:41 -0800 Subject: Re: a new book From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > One comment he made > which I found fascinating was that there was no true equal temperament > on piano before this century because the technology to tune EQ did not > exist until then I suppose that depends on how "true" they want their equal-temperament to be. Almost no implementation of equal-temperament or any other tuning can ever be absolutely 100% exact. Best I can tell, pianos have historically been tuned by techniques that owe their heritage to the old harpsichord tuning techniques, to which they added somewhat stretched octaves toward the upper range of the instrument. Still, I would say that, for purposes of practical music, pianos have been tuned to equal temperament nearly since their conception. But anyway, perhaps Jorgensen is refering to the increased use of electronic tuners in recent times? Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:49 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA25043; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 05:49:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 05:49:30 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu