historical temperaments

[Michael Gamble]

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Hello Jonathan
First - how much time have you got? There's a lot of information out =
there about "temperaments". This type of tuning is used mainly on =
historic type instruments: real square pianos (circa late 1700s) =
Harpsichords and Fortepianos. The temperament we use at Glyndebourne is =
Vallotti. In fact I have to tune a Kawai grand to this temperament to =
use with a Harpsichord in rehearsal for Bill Christie. The variation =
from equal temperament is as follows:
 a:0   a#:+6.0  b:+2.0  c:+6.0  c#:0.0  d:+2.0  d#:+4.0  e:-2.0  f:+8.0  =
f#:-2:0  g:+4.0  g#:+2.0

The "wildest" off pitch temperament is "Werkmeister-III" where:
a:0  a#:+17.5  b:-7.0  c:+10.5  c#:-13.5  d:+2.5  d#:+20.5  e:-3.5  =
f:+13.5  f#:-10.0  g:+7.0  g#:-17.0

Lambert(1774) is closest to equal temp.

I shall stop there and put on my flame suit for daring to suggest =
anything so OT as "temperaments"

Regards from darkest Sussex
Michael G.(UK)
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  From: jonathan stuchell=20
  To: Michael Gamble=20
  Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:48 PM
  Subject: historical temperament


    Hello,

          I want to start using historical temperaments.  How do I go =
about this?  I use a Peterson virtual strobe tuner which has settings =
for Young,
  Werkmeister, Kirnberger, Pythagorean, Kellner etc.  I would like to =
use one from J.S. Bach's time.  Information seems hard to find.  Im very =
interested, because I favor the Baroque period.  Also, Baroque =
instruments are becoming popular.  Hope you can give me some advice!   =20

        =20

     Thanks,


  Jonathan Stuchell  =20





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