Shape of things to come?

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Greetings all, 
     Historical tuning warning!!!  The following topic has been known to 
raise heart-rates, voices, passions, stupidity, callousness, tender 
sensitivites, and all sorts of other emotional stakes, so if it seems like a 
dangerous direction,  best get off right now. 
 
     For the rest, I would hope this is a fascinating and delightful bit of 
information. 

    Went to the Nashville PTG meeting last night and heard Bob Bussell RPT 
demo the latest tuning program from Dean Reyburn.   In discussion, he 
mentioned that he had been playing with a function of the program that 
allowed him to merge two tunings together, and he had combined ET with 
various historical tunings, resulting in some, (at least to me!), very 
interesting looking tunings.  
    Of particular interest was the result that came from taking a well 
temperament,(Prinz) and averaging it with an ET.  I suggested that he do 
this, and then compare it with the image of the Moore & Co. Victorian.  (I 
was just mentally tossing the third's averages around, but the O cents of the 
C-E third in the Kirnberger averaged with the 13.8 cents of the ET would give 
me a near 7 cent third for the new temperament, which is moving into 
Victorian era size)  
     The result of averaging the Kirnberger and ET very closely resembled the 
Victorian temperament!  This is not totally unexpected, but the ability to 
create tunings with a selected degree of tonal color is something that I wish 
a few of you RCT users out there would investigate.  I think Bob is onto 
something here and would be interested in any new experiences the RCT world 
wants to tell us about. 
Regards, 
Ed Foote