Historic tuning modes

[Farrell]

Hi. Yeah, someone else emailed me private and indicated the Smithsonian connection and that he has quite a lenghty background with the HTs. I'm really looking forward to his class!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike and Jane Spalding" <mjbkspal@execpc.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Historic tuning modes


> Terry,
> 
> I met David when he was manning  the RCT table at the CyberCafe in Reno, and picked his brain about Historic Temperaments.  I believe he tunes the historic keyboard instruments at the Smithsonian.  I expect his class will be very worthwhile.
> 
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 6:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Historic tuning modes
> 
> 
> snip--
> > 
> > BTW, who is David Lamoreaux? Doesn't he come from a family of French felt makers? Anyone aware of his background with non-equal temperaments?
> > 
> > Terry Farrell
> >   
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jason Kanter" <jkanter@rollingball.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: Historic tuning modes
> > 
> > 
> > Newton said: 
> > > Maybe the final version should have a "significant" category to help
> > > determine it's historical significant.  Obviously 200 HTs would have
> > > quite a few that were less significant than others in terms of who, when
> > > and where they were used.
> > 
> > I'd greatly welcome any educated opinions about which are significant. Also,
> > there is a good bit of overlap (e.g. 2 versions of Werckmeister III. One of
> > them is 7.8 cents lower than the other, but the offset pattern is
> > identical... see the numbers immediately below. I could discard the one that
> > has A at -7.8 cents...)
> > 
> > C +3.9    +11.7
> > C# -5.9    +2.0
> > D -3.9    +3.9
> > D# -2.0    +5.9
> > E -5.9    +2.0
> > F +1.9    +9.8
> > F# -7.8    0.0
> > G 0.0    +7.8
> > G# -3.9    +3.9
> > A -7.8    0.0
> > A# 0.0    +7.8
> > B -3.9    +3.9
> > 
> > Here are the temperaments I have now...
> > 
> > MAJOR  SNIP!!!!
> > 
> > 
> 
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