Call for HT data

[Jason Kanter]

Excellent, many thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Call for HT data


| 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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| >jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching
| >bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561
| >orcas island * 360 376 2799
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