Hi, Bill, > The Earl of Stanhope (my personal hero) dropping that load of > pamphlets on the table to make a loud "thud" Their target, John Farey, sr. at least matched this volume of pamphlets and articles (I posted an exerpt a while back) and was an enthusiastic supporter of real work by Liston, et. al. with 17, 24, and 60+ pitches per octave. As I recall, it was he who proved Stanhope presented two temperaments, apparently each definitive and both of which cannot be present on a single 12-tone instrument. Formerly where mechanical complexity prevented the further development of more capable instruments, today any number of means are employed for the practical realization of music, tempered or otherwise even for real-time performance. So far as our own field of interest, David Loberg Code's Groven Piano project is a logical extension of Liston's multiplexed organs (or even Huygens' _31 meantone_ transposing keyboards, for that matter) <http://eeyore.cc.wmich.edu/~code/groven/>, Clark Battle posted some queries here not too long ago regarding his own special design (Del - did you get to see it?), and while not the greatest example, Sauter currently is reproducing Julian Carillo's metamorphoser pianos (originally built by them fifty years ago, one of several manufacturers that built extended-tuning pianos during the first half of the 20th century). Clark
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