Call for HT data

[Avery Todd]

Jason,

Do you want HT's with offsets for an SAT type of tuning? If so, I have a
site that a DMA student here did for his dissertation that has more offsets
than you could ever hope for. In case this is what you want, here's the
URL:

http://www.millersrus.com/avery

Avery

At 10:44 AM 02/25/02 -0800, you wrote:
>List, this is a call for more HT data. I would particularly like responses
>from those of you who practice HT or modified ET in your work -- Ed Foote,
>Jim Coleman Sr., Paul Bailey, others.
>
>I am studying the HTs and modern departures from ET and have been creating
>graphs to enable the viewer to "see" what each of the temperaments sounds
>like and compare the HTs at a glance. It promises to turn into a very
>interesting PDF document, which I will make available on the web. It should
>also be a great boon to the ongoing dialog about this subject.
>
>I have found that all the HTs can be mathematically arranged in a kind of
>"spectrum".
>At one end you have the temperaments with the greatest number of purest
>thirds and fifths, at the expense of sacrificing playability of several of
>the keys.
>At the other end you have pure ET, in which there are the greatest number of
>playable keys at the expense of the purity of all the thirds and fifths.
>
>I need additional data that is not in the TuneLab set of temperament files.
>I am not currently blessed with a Jorgensen book. For example, Ed Foote
>recently has mentioned "reverse well", and I don't have it. There must be
>others that are significant and missing from my data.
>
>The sequence is approximately like this:
>
>MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SLOW/JUST THIRDS; MAXIMUM SACRIFICE OF SOME KEYS
>John Holden 1 5th syntonic
>Gottfried Keller 1 5th ditonic
>Gioseffo Zarlino 2 7th
>Christiaan Huygens 31
>Aron's 1/4 Syntonic Comma Meantone - equal beating
>17th Century Meantone
>1799 Meantone
>1797 Meantone
>Improved Wm Hawkes meantone
>Alexander Metcalf Fisher
>Equal Beating Prinz Well
>Werckmeister III
>Stanhope 1-3 Comma
>Stanhope Equal Beating
>Vallotti-Young well
>Kirnberger III
>Anton Bemetzrieder Pythagorean
>Vallotti Well (1750)
>Early 18th Century Well
>A Merrick Q-E
>14th Century Pythagorean
>Kellner Wohltemperirt/Bach
>Paul Bailey Well 2002
>Ellis Tuner Well 2
>Bremmer EBVT
>Ellis Tuner Well 4
>Coleman Balanced 16
>Coleman 16
>Thomas Young #1
>Rep 18th cent well
>Coleman 11
>Jean-Baptiste Romieu 1/7 Comma Meantone of 1755
>Peter Prelleur well
>Jean Jousse well
>Equal-beating JJ Rousseau
>Tuner's Guide well 1
>Rep Victorian well
>Henricus Grammateus Pythagorean
>Charles E Moscow Pythagorean
>Neidhardt-MarpurgDeMorganPythag
>George Frederick Handel Well
>Augustus De Morgan unequal
>Coleman 4
>Equal beating J.Preston Well
>Viennese Q-E          [from here down, the temperaments are so similar
>Ellis Tuner 5 Q-E      [that I doubt a trained ear could distinguish
>Tuner's Guide well 3    [between them.]
>Tuner's Guide well 2
>Alexander John Ellis 1875 Q-E
>Tuner's Guide Marsh Q-E
>Tuner's Guide Becket Q-E
>Jean Jousse Q-E
>Howard Willet Pyle Q-E
>FACTORY TUNERS 1840 Q-E
>Alexander John Ellis 1885 Q-E
>Equal Temperament
>NO SLOW (JUST) THIRDS OR FIFTHS; MINIMUM SACRIFICE IN ANY KEY
>
>The TuneLab set that I have not yet incorporated includes the following;
>e.g. I HAVE the following data but have not yet analyzed it:
>Jean-Le Rond Dalembert
>Johann C Gottlieb Graupner Q-E
>Johann George Neidhardt Pythag
>Johann Nepomuk Hummel Q-E
>Johann Philipp Kimberger well
>John Marsh 4 25th syntonic
>Mark Wicks Q-E
>Pietro Aaron quarter syntonic
>ROBERT SMITH 50
>Theoretical ChasEarl Stanhope
>Theoretical JJ Rousseau
>Theoretical JohnPreston well
>Theoretical Prinz well
>Francesco AntonioVallotti well
>
>Thanks in advance
>
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