It's also in Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear, published by O.J. in 1977. Sandy West At 10:28 AM 10/16/99 -0500, you wrote: >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 > >---------- >> 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 > > > >---------- >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 > > >
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