help! w/ werckmeister III

[Richard Moody]

This is to consolidate some info on Werchmeister III....  The theory  is 
all fifths are tuned pure execpt C-G-D-A, and B-F#.  These tempered fifths are 1/4
comma in the Jorgensen book.  Some books say 1/3 comma was used, but perhaps 
that was in the I or II temps?  
	In the Jorg book only 3 fifths need be tempered in 1/4 comma.  The Fifth... B--F#
.....results from tuning down from C to F pure fifths to Gb... as pointed out by
Mike
Keener. 
The Jorgensen book shows through equal beating rates (a modern innovation?) how to
get the G, D and A, the three notes that need to be tempered.  Includes music staff
notation, one temp on one page.   
---ric

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> From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@popserver4.Stanford.EDU>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: RE: help! w/ werckmeister III
> Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:54 PM
> 
> 
> Which Jorgensen book?  I had thought that I had seen the
> W-III in one of them. 
> 
> Horace



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From: Mike Keener <mkeener@erinet.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Werkmeister #3
Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 10:24 AM

Richard,

The two references for the Werckmeister III temperament are:

    Klopp, G.C. Harpsichord Tuning Course Outline. Raleigh, NC: The Sunbury Press,
1974.

    Jorgensen, Owen. The Equal-Beating Temperaments; A Handbook for Tuning
Harpsichords and Forte-Pianos with Tuning Techniques and Tables of Fifteen
Historical Temperaments. Raleigh, NC: The Sunbury Press, 1981.

Good luck finding these.  I don't know if they're still in publication, but with all
of the current interest it would make sense for them to be available.

Mike