source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:37:17 +0200 Subject: Re: Historical temperaments From: Joseph Downing On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Gary Morrison wrote: > But Mozart wrote lots of piano music, and even by that early a time > pianos were mostly 12TET, right? Absolutely NOT! I know of no evidence that EQ was any more than a theory occasionally espoused at that time. It is just TOO HARD to tune equal temperament without either a LOT of training, or an electronic device. in Mozart's time various well-tempered systems were still in use. (For references, somebody help me - the BIG red historic tuning book by the guy from Michigan - can't recall name and title right now.) Anyhow, he gives some tuning 'recipes' from the 18th century; they are NOT equal. Joe Downing, in Syracuse Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:41 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05963; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:42:15 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:42:15 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA08853 Received: (qmail 5135 invoked from network); 11 Jul 1997 21:41:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jul 1997 21:41:16 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu