This is to consolidate some info on Werchmeister III.... The theory is all fifths are tuned pure execpt C-G-D-A, and B-F#. These tempered fifths are 1/4 comma in the Jorgensen book. Some books say 1/3 comma was used, but perhaps that was in the I or II temps? In the Jorg book only 3 fifths need be tempered in 1/4 comma. The Fifth... B--F# .....results from tuning down from C to F pure fifths to Gb... as pointed out by Mike Keener. The Jorgensen book shows through equal beating rates (a modern innovation?) how to get the G, D and A, the three notes that need to be tempered. Includes music staff notation, one temp on one page. ---ric ---------- > From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@popserver4.Stanford.EDU> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: RE: help! w/ werckmeister III > Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:54 PM > > > Which Jorgensen book? I had thought that I had seen the > W-III in one of them. > > Horace ---------- From: Mike Keener <mkeener@erinet.com> To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Werkmeister #3 Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 10:24 AM Richard, The two references for the Werckmeister III temperament are: Klopp, G.C. Harpsichord Tuning Course Outline. Raleigh, NC: The Sunbury Press, 1974. Jorgensen, Owen. The Equal-Beating Temperaments; A Handbook for Tuning Harpsichords and Forte-Pianos with Tuning Techniques and Tables of Fifteen Historical Temperaments. Raleigh, NC: The Sunbury Press, 1981. Good luck finding these. I don't know if they're still in publication, but with all of the current interest it would make sense for them to be available. Mike
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