source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 19:02:01 +0200 Subject: Re: Historical temperaments From: Daniel Wolf Gary Morrison wrote: '' 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. '' His position under the Archbishop of Salzburg included organ playing and his sacred music is far from insignificant. And: '' But Mozart wrote lots of piano music, and even by that early a time pianos were mostly 12TET, right?'' Broadwood claimed - and this must be taken as hyperbole - that 12TET was standard practice only in 1811. At that time Mozart had been dead almost twenty years. The most generally accepted date for 12tet as common practice for piano tuning is about 1844. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:00 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00441; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:00:31 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:00:31 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00482 Received: (qmail 12230 invoked from network); 11 Jul 1997 18:00:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jul 1997 18:00:22 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu