[LAU] Different temperaments (was Chord finder)

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 03:00:30 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:

>
> BTW, what does all this have to do with my original request for a
> little software program :)
>

Apologies. Subject line corrected :-)



> But wasn't Beethoven writing long after Bach had figured out the
> tempered piano tuning? Besides, assuming that Beethoven was playing a
> keyed instrument ... well, unless he had some extra keys ...
>
> Yes, you are right that equal temperament is less that perfect ... but
> on keyed instruments (and this will include fretted stuff as well) one
> doesn't have much choice when playing.
>
>
Heres some evidence that Mozart played with 'more keys' if he could get them
http://tonalsoft.com/monzo/55edo/55edo.htm

Bach used Werckmeister-III, today we use equal temperament. They are
crudely similar in that all keys are usable.  In Werckmeister however all
keys are subtly different. In ET all are the same. So for Bach, it seems he
was such a genius that that is not recognized/understood even 4 centuries
after him. More at http://www.kylegann.com/histune.html#hist3
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