<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"= > <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <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. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>They do present numbers for setting an ET up to set the temperament.</= DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>reconning from A rather than C</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All octaves and unisons are pure (he says)....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Part II of the article will appear in the next "EARLY MUSIC" = quarterly</DIV> <DIV>issue.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Richard Adkins</DIV> <DIV>Coe College</DIV></BODY></HTML>