[CAUT] professor tuning variables

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Fri Feb 20 15:00:20 PST 2009



> David Porritt wrote:
> I’ve never done that but it sounds reasonable.  Remembering what 
> temperament goes where is what computers and inventory databases are for.
>  
> Which is exactly how our predecessors 150-200 years ago kept up with it.
> :-)
> Tanner

I've long suspected that the impossibility of meeting 
everyone's requests for something different in temperament and 
pitch is what was originally responsible for the shift to ET 
and a nominally standard pitch. Administrative streamlining.
Ron N



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