Fred writes: << I assume the "Broadwood Best" you refer to is "Ellis tuner #4" (#5 comes much closer to ET and is pretty bland. I am fond of BB #4 myself). I have seen a couple of the Coleman temperaments, but not #11. Where are they available? Rollingball, I think, has all of them. I use the Broadwood tuning that Jorgensen displays on page 558 of "Tuning". The offsets are A 0 G# +2 G +5 F# 0 F +5 E -2 Eb +3 D +3 C# +1 C +5 B -1 Bb +4 This tuning is not as "smooth" or refined as the Coleman 11, but as Jorgensen states, there is no temperament better than another, they simply have different resources. >>I have seen a few "proposed Bach Temperaments" but am not familiar with J. Charles Francis. Can you shed some light? (source, whatever). >> > From: "J. Charles Francis" <Francis at datacomm.ch> >> Subject: Tuning Interpretation of Bach's '1722 Seal' you can download at the following link: >> >> http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/Bach_Seal.pdf >> And offsets C descending, corrected for A=0.0 >> C 8.128 >> B -2.582 >> A# 5.959 >> A 0.0 >> G# 2.049 >> G 5.431 >> F# -1.861 >> F 7.914 >> E -0.822 >> D# 4.004 >> D 4.278 >> C# 0.0942 Hope that helps. Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.<BR> (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)</HTML>
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