Temperament, Kellner

[Richard Moody]

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul N. Bailey <103445.713@compuserve.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: Temperament, A pianist responds


| Richard and everbyody who is interested:
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| Regarding JS Bach's WTC and whether he was practicing and advocating
| a particular temperament:
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| Dr. Herbert Anton Kellner has done some remarkable research into the
| Keyboard music of JS Bach and offers us a bearing plan for a specific
| temperament which is embedded in the WTC and other keyboard works.
|
| Check it out at Dr. Kellners web site.(I don't have the address at hand,
|
|                         Paul Bailey
|                         Modesto CA

|
This is the web site I came up with.......

http://ha.kellner.bei.t-online.de/#kellner

Much on the site is hard to understand as below
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    This welltempered system is specified via the fundamental C-major
triad, the sharpened third c-e of which beats at the same rate as the
flattened welltempered fifth c-g in optimum mutual adaptation. The second
octave of the third is made up by four such welltempered fifths c-g-d-a-e.
The fifth e-b is perfect. From c descend six perfect fifths until g-flat
(f-sharp) is reached, including octave transpositions where necessary, upon
tuning a harpsichord. The chromatic scale wohltemperirt, ascending
successively from c, reads in cent:
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The other problem is references.   His comments appear to be assumptions
without the backing of historical record or actual facts.

The list of his writings is impressive.  I would like to read "Das
wohltemperirte Clavier" - Tuning and Musical Structure, EHM, 2/6 April
1980, 137-140.

What is EHM?     ---ric