well temperament defined

[Avery Todd]

Ed,

While we're sort of on the subject of definitions, why is a Victorian 
called that?
What makes it different from a "normal" WT? I used Owen's offsets for Bill
Bremmer's EBVT on our early music "guru" at the university recently and he
asked me why it was called a Victorian tuning. I'm sure I should know this
but I don't. Thanks.

Avery

>I asked Bill Garlick for his shortest definition of  WT once, and his reply
>was that it is a temperament in which varied key color is organized along the
>circle of fifths,beginning at C or F, and contains no wolves,(hence, is not
>retrictive).  Traditionally, no third is wider than the syntonic comma of
>21.5 cents.
>      When I am asked further, I tell customers it is a tuning in which the
>harmoniousness of the intervals is stacked from more in tune than ET to less
>"in tune", creating a palette of harmonic values rather than just one.
>
>Ed Foote RPT
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html