source file: m1399.txt
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:38:50 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: Difficulties in Piano Construction

From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

>Several books I have read say that one of the largest reasons for the
>popularity of Equal Temperament in western music is that the most
>prominent piano manufacturers all decided to make pianos in ET, and that
>constructing a JI piano creates some serious mechanical difficulties.
>However, the books have never mentioned what these mechanical difficulties
>are.

   I have heard that too, from Ivor Darreg, who did a lot of piano tuning
in his day.  If I remember correctly, he said that it would tend to go out
of tune more quickly in anything other than equal-temperament.