---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Nope. I came across them in Dr. Jorgensen's book trying to find an HT that would have been appropriate for a Haydn trio sometime back. Graupner was first oboist in Haydn's orchestra in the London symphonies of 1791 and 1792 and later immigrated to the US. He became an American citizen in 1807, and was a founder of the American Haydn Society and a major figure in the promotion of orchestral music in America. He owned a music store in Boston and also sold pianos, publishing his instructions for tuning in 1819 (which seemed to have been based on Bland's 1790 temperament). I didn't have time to read much on Farey (can't check that book out), except that his temperament, which I believe predated Graupner's, was closer to ET even than Graupner's. Both temperaments would easily pass the RPT exam for ET with a score of 100, with no offset as great as one cent, although Graupner acknowledged that less skilled tuners would have difficulty achieving the proper results. That's right, it was simply the lack of tuner's skill preventing composers from having access to something indistinguishable from our best modern attempts at equal temperament 70 years before Helmholtz! There were others in that time which had similar tendencies toward ET, being based on the tuning instructions published by John Bland in 1790, and at least for me, these two in particular, given Graupner's close relationship to Haydn, indicate some evidence that composers at least as early as the Classical period perhaps did desire the versatility of ET for the piano if it could be achieved. You know me: devil's advocate >:-) Jeff On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Avery Todd wrote: > New ones on me. Or do you mean Farley. As in: http:// > www.farleyspianos.com > > Avery > > At 01:56 PM 12/7/2005, you wrote: > >> On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Fred Sturm wrote: >> >>> I'd say Valotti is a bit pungent for Beethoven, and would >>> recommend something on the lines of John Preston, Peter Prelleur, >>> Early 18th Century, Representative 18th Century, or Broadwood >>> Best (Ellis tuner #4) instead. >> >> Why not Graupner or Farey? >> :-) >> JT > _______________________ > Avery Todd, RPT > Moores School of Music > University of Houston > Houston, TX 77204-4017 Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/ff/c0/0f/f2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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