<< Does anyone have the "Beethoven in the Temperaments" CD? I've misplaced the portion of the liner notes that tells which temperament was used for each track number.>> Greetings, A Prinz was used for the first two, "Pathetique" and Op. 14 # 1. A Young was the tuning Op. 27 and 53. The Prinz was specifically chosen for the Pathetique because of its full syntonic comma thirds that form the harmony for the middle movment( Ab) . It seems that this was the generally accepted limit of tempering for most of the well-temperaments, and I wanted there to be an example of what that size third sounded like on a modern piano. Tuners and musicians tend to have divergent impressions of the effect, but I got a lot of comments on that particular passage. There are others that find musical resources in even more tempered intervals, it's a matter of taste, and most of us have learned there is simply no way of accounting for any of it. (that's pretty non-committal, I know). Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance.<BR> (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)</HTML>
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