source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 08:14:54 -0800 Subject: RE: Herbert Anton Kellner's Bach tuning From: Johnny Reinhard Kirnberger never claimed that JS Bach prohibited Pythagorean thirds, only through a third party that JS Bach tuned all of his thirds sharp (which I take to mean sharper than just and not necessarily sharped the same amount). Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Timothy Tikker and Julia Harlow wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Paul Hahn wrote: > > > > Remind me: are any major thirds Pythagorean? > > > > Three: F#-A#, Db-F, and Ab-C. > > Hmmm. Sorry if I'm beating (no pun intended) a dead horse, but didn't > Kirnberger say that Bach tuned with all Major 3rds sharp, but none > Pythagorean? > > Mind you, I like the Kellner temperament - a local organ is tuned in it - > but I just wonder if one of Neidhardt's temperaments is more what Bach > had in mind (if Kirnberger is right - odd that K himself devised > temperaments which didn't fit this description). > > - Tim Tikker > Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 19:00 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA29309; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:00:50 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:00:50 -0800 Message-Id: <9511030857.aa20809@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu