source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:02:43 +0200 Subject: Re: Perishable tunings and other permutations? From: Paul Hahn On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Charles Lucy wrote: > All this chat about meantone tuning is very interesting, yet it > would seem very difficult to affirm the details of which tunings > were used on keyboard instruments, as the tuning is perishable. Haven't you been listening? Daniel has several times mentioned the fact that many of the organs available to Mozart were in meantone. Organs hold their tuning splendidly. > Does anyone have access to physical fretted instruments from the > periods in question, so that fret, nut and bridge distances may > be measured? Meanwhile, fretted instruments have used ET almost exclusively throughout their history, because of the difficulty of frets needing to be in different places from one string to the next. --pH http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote <*> O /\ "Foul? What the hell for?" -\-\-- o "Because you are chalking your cue with the 3-ball." Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:35 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA23361; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:35:47 +0200 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:35:47 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22873 Received: (qmail 19837 invoked from network); 12 Jul 1997 15:35:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Jul 1997 15:35:43 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu