source file: m1579.txt
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:13:19 -0600 (CST)

Subject: Re: Siberian temperament

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl wrote:
> I compared it with my scale archive, but found nothing close to it.
> That's not really surprising since well-temperaments with pure fifths
> and a few flattened ones never have all the flattened ones in a consecutive
> row, but rather a few pure, then one flat, a few pure, etc.

Er--Vallotti?  Plus, many popular ones--Kirnberger, Werckmeister III,
Kellner, Barnes--have _most_ of the flat fifths clumped together with
only one outlier.

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