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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Who is the author?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Kellner wrote a nice little book on this topic a few years ago, and his proposed temperament is very nice.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Ed S.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=RADKINS@coe.edu href="mailto:RADKINS@coe.edu">Richard Adkins</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 3/31/2005 2:29:08 PM </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] Bach's Temperament recent article in Early Music</DIV>
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<DIV>For you HT people out there, there is an article in the latest</DIV>
<DIV>"Early Music" magazine Febr 2005 about the discovery of the</DIV>
<DIV>secret to Bach's temperament publiched on the title page</DIV>
<DIV>of his WTC in kind of a spiral code. They think they have</DIV>
<DIV>deceifered this code, and present the temperament now</DIV>
<DIV>for us to work with.<!--StartFragment --> </DIV>
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<DIV>Article description: <SPAN class=medium-normal>Consideration of Bach's aversion to computation in numbers and theoretical speculation in words; Provision of a set of tempering instructions for harpsichords, clavichords or organs in Bach's "Das wohltemperirte Clavier"; Exploration of tonalities.</SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV>I have not seen any comment on this...will google abou it to see if anyone is all abuzz with</DIV>
<DIV>euphoria.</DIV>
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<DIV>They do present numbers for setting an ET up to set the temperament.</DIV>
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<DIV>reconning from A rather than C</DIV>
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<DIV>C(+0) C#(-4)D(+2) Eflat(+0) E(-2)F(+0) F#(-6) G(+4)G#(-2) A(=0) Bflat(+0) B(-4)</DIV>
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<DIV>All octaves and unisons are pure (he says)....</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyhow read the article, I'm just posting this as a tidbit...</DIV>
<DIV>have a go at it....I"m going to tune our harpshicord to this and see how it sounds.</DIV>
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<DIV>Part II of the article will appear in the next "EARLY MUSIC" quarterly</DIV>
<DIV>issue.</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard Adkins</DIV>
<DIV>Coe College</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>