Chapter Technical

[Avery Todd]

List,

    First, I want to publicly thank Ed Foote for a great technical on 
"Alternate" Tunings :-)
that was done yesterday for the Houston chapter. This is the same class he 
will
give at the National and I want to encourage anyone who has even a mild 
curiosity
about this subject to attend his class. Some good history there on the 
development
of temperaments, even if you have no intention of ever tuning anything 
other than
your normal ET. A couple of techs were even interested enough that they 
commented
that they were going to experiment with it.
    Second, during the course of the morning, while talking about different 
temperaments,
we discovered that some of the offsets preloaded into the SAT III are 
incorrect for the
name of the temperament. Let me encourage anyone who uses the SAT III 
temperaments
page for tuning, check the offsets against known correct ones, such as in 
Jorgensen's
"Tuning". I will be doing this Monday!
    Because of this, our DMA student who gave a Lecture Recital on this 
subject got a
"mystery" Kirnberger for Chopin. :-) After checking what was there, Ed 
suggested that it
looked more like a Meantone type of temperament but even with that, 
everything still went
well and quite a bit of interest was expressed.
    All in all, a very profitable and interesting Saturday. Thanks again, Ed!

Avery