more on this temperament thing

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HT's done by machine cannot produce a beautiful tuning anymore than a 
temperament only using a machine can produce a beautiful ET. There will 
always, due to inharmonicity, be a few fifths, fourths, or incorrect thirds 
if you take the machine readings  exactly off a chart in HT tunings, just as 
there are in ET's. Following beat rate guides gets a more musical result. 
Starting from the machine readings, then tweaking is most helpful, but I have 
heard HT's proudly done which leave mistakes in beat rates, especially in the 
octave and a half above middle C. We all must remember that HT's are not 
technical tunings. They are aesthetic tunings, requiring a sensitivity to the 
musical balance intended by the historical harmonies. The way the tuning 
progresses through key changes is the essense of the tuning, not the 
adherance to a formula. The greatest danger in a HT are fourths in the 
mid-upper range which beat faster than the formula suggests, thereby throwing 
off the effect. A fourth which beats 1 BPS too fast is much more of a problem 
than a third which beats 2 BPS too fast in an isolated interval.
I truly believe that one must tune and listen to HT's a great deal to 
appreciate them, as well as to play through real music in them. Only then 
will a tuner realize how to make the small deviations from cents formulas to 
make them truly special.

                                                                   Michael 
Meade, RPT     

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