source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:06:13 +0200 Subject: Re: Historical temperaments From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >If we restrict ourselves to Mozart, he probably used a lot of meantone >during his career - the church organs in Salzburg were apparently in still >meantone (whether 1/5 or 1/4 comma, I cannot be sure), Well... Mozart didn't exactly write all that much organ music, but I suppose that affects what other instruments available at the time were tuned to. But Mozart wrote lots of piano music, and even by that early a time pianos were mostly 12TET, right? Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:07 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA30528; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:08:10 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:08:10 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA30518 Received: (qmail 23935 invoked from network); 11 Jul 1997 14:06:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jul 1997 14:06:48 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu