Some interesting points about accuracy, and how do we judge HT btw? Who has trained under an old master in any of these temps? The machine may be accurate enough, but I fear the aural tradition of HTs has been lost. At least they have been written down in beats per second. There is another point of accuracy that has not been raised, and perhaps our musician friends can help out. Doesn't it matter where you start when you tune an uneven temperament. If the piece is to be in G minor, and once you select the temp. isn't there a optimal starting point for G minor. Would the starting point be different if it were say C minor? Perhaps a knowledge of music theory would aid in that answer. Another reason for asking is that the title of the Vallotti/Young (I am reading) is, "Tuning the Transposed Vallotti Well Temperament of 1781 According to Thomas Young's Rules of 1799." What does "Transposed" mean?. The scheme starts from middle C. Richard Moody ---------- > From: BobDavis88@aol.com > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Acceptable levels of error > Date: Monday, February 09, 1998 2:55 PM > > > A WT or meantone can fit a broad-ranged description. > > It can have any number of "errors" in it and still function and be a WT or > MT. > > It's only "equal" if it is. > ------------- > Meaning no disrespect, then it's only Werckmeister III if it is. I think > there's a "modulation" in the logic here. Pretend for a moment that we have > decided that the ideal temperament crucial to a particular musical program or > piece is the Valotti/Young. If an ET with a couple of half-cent errors is > still a temperament, but no longer functions as ET; then, is a Valotti/Young > with a couple of half-cent errors still a temperament but no longer > recognizable as Valotti-Young? > > When does the concept of Just Noticeable Difference [I like it -- is that > yours, Ed Foote?] come into play for a SPECIFIC well-temperament? If we are > going to complain about inaccuracies in one temperament, don't we have to hold > all temperaments to the same standard? If a Valotti/Young is not perfectly > accurate but can still function satisfactorily, so can an ET with the same > level of error, I think. > > Bob Davis
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