<HTML>In a message dated 9/6/02 10:12:10 PM Central Daylight Time, joegarrett@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I've been perusing "Big Red", in regards to "Broadwood's Best", as in Historical Tuning. There seems to be two of the darned things! Which one is the one that all you Hysterical Tuning types, are referring to? Or to put it another way, which one is "Best"/your preference, and why? Seems a bit confusing to have Two Broadwood's Best tunings. </BLOCKQUOTE> The "best" actually meant is was closest to being equal without going all the way.  That, of course will always be a matter of opinion. For the past few days, I have been trying to really find the actual correction figures for the EBVT.  I can understand now why people have not been able to get it and come up with radically differing results.  I am closing in on it, however. One thing I can tell you right now, however, is that if you use those figures that Ed Foote copies out of Jorgensen's book, you'll also get different results every time and they won't produce the same effects from one piano to the other.  The problem with the Broadwood temperaments is lack of definition.  No pure 5ths, no specified equal beating intervals, just unequal 3rds, some 5ths tempered a little more, some a little less.  Anybody can do that. Compare my work-in-progress, unofficial, rounded off correction figures to the Tuner's Guide #3 (theoretically correct). Tuner's         EBVT Guide      (unofficial, work in progress, rounded off) C +4         +3 C# -1         -2 D  +1        -1 D# +1       +1     E  -2         -2 F  +4        +2 F#  0         -2 G  +2        +2 G#  1        -1 A    0         0 A#  5         0 B   -2        -2 Contrary to what Ed says, my figures here are nearly if not identical to the very first ones I came up with 10 years ago.  But apply them to an FAC program and you'll get different results on each different piano you put them on, as you would with any set of rounded of correction fugures.  I tried the FAC program ET too and found hints of Reverse Well from it on certain pianos.  Anybody who depends on these calculations to provide truly accurate results is depending on on a rough tuning at best.  Yet, I remember Ed writing that he would stake his professional reputation on it.  I surely wouldn't even offer that to my lowliest of clients on a Wurlitzer spinet. "Sideways Well":  the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the day he knowingly published false data for the EBVT. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>