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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am in a jam having been thrown under the
gun by a pianist (he called me last week and asked me to try this on his
practice piano and provided me with a part of an article and 2 hours to
produce this thing, can I get some cheese with this wine?) who insists that I
tune using the Well Temperament suggested by Bradley Lehman in the February 2005
issue of Early Music. I am a fish out of water who has loved the one and only
Equal Temp for 30 years. I am trying to embrace this challenge but the
pianist is pressuring me to find some consistency and the concert is
March 30. The general indications given are tune 5 "normal" tempered 5ths (1/6th
comma) then 3 perfect 5ths and then 3 less tempered 5ths (1/12th comma).
Seems reasonable enough to me and not as wild as some but the only experience
I've had with historical temperaments, other than enjoying the theory, is a
Werkmeister 3 I did many years ago for a recording and the Valotti in my
Accu-tuner that I sometimes use for harpsichords. Talk about being machine
dependent. If anyone knows of this temperament and has SAT settings for it I'd
be eternally grateful. The ETD settings that are given in the article
are "deviations from Equal Temperament." They are given either from C or A at
0.0. "A" would work best for me as that is what I am used to, however, the
"deviations form ET" has thrown me since I know my SAT includes stretch for
correcting inharmonicity. I am doing this on a Steinway D for the concert
and a Steinway B for his practice instrument. The article also says
all the octaves should be 2:1 which seems more for a more harmonic
instrument than the piano. The more I look at it the more confused I'm getting.
I could hack it out with the 5ths indications, at least I can tune
aurally and use some tests but I'd really feel more comfortable with
something in the SAT memory. Also there are no indications given for aural
continuous or contiguous 3rds. Any light out there? Sorry to be a
burden on the holidays but he actually suggested I come in on Sunday and "fix"
this. That's not going to happen, and I can handle the client. It's the
temperament I need help with now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris Solliday rpt</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>