[CAUT] Temperament:Harpsichord:Handel ?

Ron Nossaman rnossaman@cox.net
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:39:28 -0600



>  Thanks Ron for this wonderfully pithy
> statement. Get it to pitch and jiggle it. What could be simpler, and yet
> take lots of experience to do.

Pithy are we, and all that jiggling and pondering is where 
experience comes from.


> Amateurs might need some kind of recipe to get them in the ballpark. After a
> gazillion tunings, a recipe just gets in the way of the professional. Then
> you start to think about it too much.

I'm not so sure I agree, since most all the (often contradictory) 
recipes I've heard through the years have come from people with 
plenty of experience. I guess we each slays our dragons in our own 
manner.

Ron N

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