source file: m1404.txt
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:44:29 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: piano "built in ET".

From: "Jo A. Hainline" <hainline@unr.edu>

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, A440A wrote:

>      The popularity of ET in Western music is due, (IMHO)  to the loss of
> interest in tonality.  With renewed interest in tonality today, the
> alternatives to ET are becoming more prevelant.  Computer-equipped keyboard
> tuners, such as myself, now are having a lot easier time offering customers a
> choice in temperament and the results are encouraging.  
> Regards, 
> Ed Foote 
> Precision Piano Works
> Nashville, Tn. 
> http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/history/edfoote.html 

Actually it seems to me that the fascination with polyphony along with
12ET's somewhat universal simplicity, has caused the predominance of
12TET-- it has taken 250-300 years to somewhat exhaust the rich endowment
of this tuning. 

Bruce Kanzelmeyer