> On a not-to-recent-subject, now that Montal is old hat, I can't recall if > Gall 1805 has been mentioned on list yet? That's another non-English > source that would not have made it into Jorgenson's books. Anyone? If > it's also well-known I won't bother to quote from it. > > stephen > > Stephen Birkett Fortepianos Gall is not listed in the _New Groves_ bblg of the article "Temperaments" by Mark Lindley. He lists his sources in the secquence they were first published. ie Montal is listed as, C. Montal: Abrege de l'art........(Paris 1834). Or I did mot see Gall in the 1800 -1900 section. So who is Gall and what did he have to say? ric
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