source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:59:04 +0100 Subject: Re: Chestnut help...... From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >19th century tuning by ear was a highly developed=0A=0Aart based= > on aesthetic judgments for every tone, and test chords were=0A=0Aused mo= >re than test intervals. By contrast, 20th century tuning is a=0A=0Amathe= >matical skill." That strikes me as a surprising conclusion. I say that for two reasons: 1. Certainly pianos have been able to be tuned to equal temperament before any 20th century technology was applied to it. It seems surprising that the same nontechnological methodologies couldn't be applied to 17th-century clavichords. 2. Clearly there was one very easily available tuning device by which to tune a clavichord to equal temperament, so that it will match a lute. That tuning reference device is the lute itself. Bear in mind of course that I'm just speaking in terms of what seems possible; I certainly don't by any means claim to be an expert on 17th century clavier tuning practices. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Steven Rezsutek Subject: In support of 22, among others PostedDate: 09-12-97 16:41:27 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 09-12-97 16:39:35-09-12-97 16:39:35,09-12-97 16:39:22-09-12-97 16:39:22 DeliveredDate: 09-12-97 16:39:22 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256568.0056030F; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:39:28 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10582; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:41:27 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:41:27 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10575 Received: (qmail 25307 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1997 07:41:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 1997 07:41:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199712091538.KAA16890@doghouse.hq.nasa.gov> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu