<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 4/24/01 1:03:35 PM Central Daylight Time, A440A@AOL.COM
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The Victorian era is an efficient starting point. I
<BR>wonder if you customer will care to continue farther back into the stronger
<BR>contrasts of earlier styles. (You might mention that temperament
<BR>represents
<BR>a continuum within itself).</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>One of the special features of the Equal Beating (EB) properties of the EBVT
<BR>is that earlier music is much better represented than with any historically
<BR>documented Victorian Temperament. That's what makes it useful for playing
<BR>virtually any kind of music. The astonishing clarity comes from the EB
<BR>effects found in both the temperament and octave tuning systems.
<BR>Unfortunately, these cannot be produced by any smooth curve calculated
<BR>program used by any of the popular Electronic Tuning Devices.
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<BR>I thank John for his interest and comments, also those recently from Jay
<BR>Mercier. What John noticed about tuning the note F3 earlier in the sequence
<BR>had also been discovered by Ola from Norway. I wonder why I hadn't thought
<BR>of it myself but the fact is that I had tried to keep the construction of the
<BR>temperament as close to the way all of the typical historically documented
<BR>temperaments were.
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<BR>I have, however, been interested in finding ways to tune even those from the
<BR>note A as a starting point rather than C in order to assure standard pitch.
<BR>This bothers some HT practitioners, making them believe that A is the tonal
<BR>center rather than C, which is simply not true.
<BR>
<BR>I think I will rewrite the instructions to where F3-A3 will be the only
<BR>estimated interval (at 6 beats per second). That should be easy for an aural
<BR>ET tuner to adapt to. If the estimate is good, every interval following that
<BR>will either be pure or will beat exactly the same as another, which makes the
<BR>EBVT much easier to get correct than ET.
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<BR>There are two other temperaments that I tune for which I use a different
<BR>sequence than was historically documented but which produce the same results.
<BR> It is just easier for a person who has previously only tuned ET to learn,
<BR>use and get correct each time: the Vallotti and the Marpurg-Neidhardt
<BR>Composite Quasi Equal Temperament. If these can be done with an alternative
<BR>sequence, there is no reason why my own EBVT can't be.
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<BR>I should have enough material for a 4 part Journal article, Explanation of
<BR>Key Color, the EBVT, Tempered Octaves and the alternative sequences for the
<BR>Vallotti and Marpurg. The Marpurg should be of interest to many because it
<BR>produces the very same neutrality that ET does but because of its 9 pure 5ths
<BR>and 3 EB triads, it sounds much cleaner and clearer. In my opinion, it is a
<BR>much better alternative than the hyper expanded version of ET known as "ET
<BR>with pure 5ths".
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<BR>Since the 2002 PTG Annual Convention will be in Chicago, my local area, it
<BR>will be important for those of you who are interested in what I have to offer
<BR>to let the Institute Directors know that you are interested both by direct
<BR>requests and on surveys. I would enjoy comparing the EBVT with ET again on
<BR>Walter Grand pianos with Virgil Smith.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>