<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>      If I use one of the Victorian Wells wont it be too "gentle" for Beethoven. The purpose of my wandering experiment here, is to reproduce what Beethoven intended. Woudn't it be more effectual for me to use a plain Well such as the Valotti? What, can we guess, did Beethoven's tuner use? Also, in the Jorgensen book, he comments on the year it was used and who came up with it. How did Jorgensen know what tuners were using at any particular time? ..My guess is he did ALOT of research. Just who was this fellow?...a mathemetition...a tuner no doubt too!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Do you think the Valotti is a good choice for Beethoven piano sonatas?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV>Julia Gottshall</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 9/17/2006 11:48:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, jkanter@rollingball.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#008080><FONT size=2>Julia, since this question has occurred to you, it will be well worth devoting some of your curiosity to exploring this site: </FONT><A title=http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm href="http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm"><FONT size=2>http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm</FONT></A></FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#008080 size=2>(my own work, stimulated originally by Ed Foote)</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#008080></FONT></STRONG><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#008080 size=2>I agree with Ed's moderate response -- it's personal taste -- but I find that a mild well temperament is very pleasing for any kind of music. The milder major third in the "white" keys is a sound that we just do not hear very much, and it tastes good. Try something from the group on my website called "Victorian Well", or one of the mild "modern well" temperaments like Wendell's "Tweaked Synchronous Victorian" -- which I just put on a Stwy B for a very talented (and delighted) pianist who plays a lot of Beethoven and Chopin. </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#008080></FONT></STRONG><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#008080 size=2>Jason</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>