The Bach Temperament

[Philippe Errembault]

Hi Ed,

Seems that you are much more enthousiastic and categoric about this than 7 
months ago when I asked the question :-)
I'm glad to see that this temperament appears to be a good horse to bet on 
it ;-)

Regards,

Philippe Errembault

Ps : I don't follow the list on a very regular basis, I'm glad I didn't miss 
this one !

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <A440A at aol.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:47 AM
Subject: The Bach Temperament


> Greetings,
>      Well, I tried it.  The tuning scheme that Mr. Lehman extrapolated 
> from
> the inscription on Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".  The customer was
> astonished at the effect.  This is a customer that had been using  a later
> well-temperament, and he felt that the Bach tuning was a large 
> improvement.  He plays a
> lot of Chopin, as well as Beethoven, Haydn, and Bach.
>     It seems that Bach knew what he was doing( does that surprise 
> anyone?).
> I would encourage tuners to try it and have a listen, this thing has some
> serious claim to authenticity and fits well with virtually all the music I 
> have
> heard played on it, jazz and 20th century standard stuff, too.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>
>