Opening a can of worms again

[Jason Kanter]

David, I have been assembling a graphic view of many of the HTs, and it will be available on the web "real soon now" for you to examine. This will give you a very good sense of which temperaments are more extreme than others and how they compare. Be patient; it will either be on Bill Bremmer's site or on mine, which is not yet hatched. But the file with 70 HTs in it is almost ready.

Cordially

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vanderhoofven" <dkvander@joplin.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Opening a can of worms again


| Greetings,
| 
| I have recently taken the plunge into tuning Well Temperaments.  I am now 
| using Bill Bremmer's EBV temperament as my default tuning style (when I am 
| not tuning ET).  But I would like to gradually wean my customers away from 
| this towards something stronger.  Assuming that the EBV is a mild tuning 
| and there are a lot of other tunings that offer more contrast, what steps 
| would I take to get from here to there?  Which temperaments would be 
| recommended as intermediate steps between one end of the spectrum and the 
| other?
| 
| I personally like Bill Bremmer's 1/7 comma modified mean tone temperament, 
| but have lost instructions for how to tune this again.  Can anyone provide 
| offset numbers for this?
| 
| Suppose that I tune EBV this time, and next time I want to tune a little 
| more aggressively.  Which temperament is next in line?   And then which 
| temperament comes after that one, and so forth?  I heard a piano tuned by 
| Ed Foote in the Coleman 11 tuning which I thought was really good.  Where 
| would the Coleman 11 fit in?
| 
| Sorry for opening the can of worms again.  I don't have a copy of Owen' 
| Jorgensen's books to read, or that might answer my questions.
| 
| Also,  Can anyone comment on which temperament of tuning is the most solid 
| and stable?  I would like my tunings to last the longest time possible.  Is 
| ET best for tuning stability?  Or is there another temperament which is 
| best for tuning stability?
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| David A. Vanderhoofven
| Joplin, MO 
|