Pic of HT; test

[Greg Newell]

Jason,
    This is fascinating. What will you use this graph for? Is this done to help
show a customer how wild one temp. might be from another? Will you then chart a
comparison of all the temperaments together somehow? What is your background
that taught you how to create this?

Greg

Jason Kanter wrote:

> List, I've been experimenting with the graphic view of Historic
> Temperaments. I'm dissatisfied with the view on Ron Koval's site because it
> only shows major thirds, not fifths. Personally, I want to see both the
> major third and fifth deviations from perfect (3:2) or just (5:4), so I can
> see what the tradeoffs are in a given temperament. I've figured out the math
> in Excel and created a system for generating a graphic, and tried to get the
> graphic small enough to fit in a message here. So, without further
> introduction, attached is a picture of the Werkmeister III temperament.
>
> My source for the data is the set of temperament files that are supplied
> with TuneLab.
>
> Please let me know if you wouold find such charts useful, and which others
> you would like me to post. I have done ET, Bremmer's EBVT, Coleman's 4, 11
> and 16, but since the GIF file of each one is about 19k, I can only post one
> at a time.
>
> Also, if the GIF format cannot be read, please let me know. The smallest JPG
> I have so far been able to create of this picture is 52k, too large for this
> list.
>
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