Broadwood Best

[Richard Moody]

A couple of issues.  The cents offsets on the web site are given
to two decimal places.  Ellis only gave whole cent figures.   How
you can translate whole cent figures into two place I would like
to know.
     The "best" is said to come from "line 4 "   Actually if you
look at the original source which is Ellis appendices in
Helmholtz, the best tuning or the one closest to ET comes from
line  5 .  So why wasn't that used?
    However looking at the original line four from Ellis,  it
appears the web site is much further from Ellis than #4 was from
ET.  So the only conclusion can be that some one is mistaken or
relying on a source too far away from the original which is Ellis'
figures in Helmholtz.  ---rm
        "may the source be with you"



----- Original Message -----
From: Vanderhoofven <dkvander@joplin.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:51 AM
Subject: Broadwood Best


> Hi ric,
>
> Here is Jason Kanter's web page which has graphs of the
different tunings.
>
> http://rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm
>
> click on Victorian Well and then you will see where you can
click on
> Broadwood Best.  A graph will appear in the right side of the
screen and
> the offests from Equal Temperament are included in the info on
the chart
> below the graph.
>
> The Broadwood Best, Broadwood Usual, and Moore are all nice mild
sounding
> temperaments.
>
> Sincerely,
> David Vanderhoofven
> Joplin, MO
>
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