[CAUT] Harpsichord transposing keyboard/ WT

[Ed Sutton]

Jim-

Double reed players, A415, 4 harpsichords...
You may have some very sensitive customers. Some of them probably know exactly what temperament they want.
A friend of mine is an oboist. She practices playing intervals pure, and then with varying degrees of tempering.
The temperament that Jorgensen calls "Handel" is very useful. Closer to a Victorian than a representative Baroque temperament as he interprets it.
And of course what could be better for a Messiah performance?  ;-)

Ed Sutton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Busby 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Harpsichord transposing keyboard/ WT


  Fred,

   

  What besides Werkmeister? Valloti/Young maybe?

   

  Thanks.

  Jim

   


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  From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm
  Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 7:21 PM
  To: College and University Technicians
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Harpsichord transposing keyboard/ WT

   

  Yep, retune. Better it should be ET than a piquant WT transposed a half step. You're making all the key color relationships opposite. Or use a less colorful WT than Werck, on the assumption that the use for one day at the different pitch isn't all that critical.

  Regards,

  Fred Sturm

  University of New Mexico

  fssturm at unm.edu

   

   

   

  On Jul 18, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Jim Busby wrote:





  List,




  If you tune a WT, which has a certain characteristic for each key, then someone wants to shift the keyboard to play at A415, should you retune it to maintain the key characteristics? IOW If the key of C as a tonality is fairly clean but C# has a lot more movement, by shifting the keyboard to A425 I've essentially changed the essence of the perceived key qualities. Should I retune?

   

  I'm using Werkmeister III and one day the keyboard will be in A440 then the next A415, then back. Or. should I not worry about it?

   

  Thanks,

  Jim Busby BYU

   
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