Another Recital in 1/7 Comma Meantone

[John Ross]

Hi Ed,
I have a question. Is there a table or some reference, that says which HT,
sounds best
with which composer?
How does a person determine which piece of music, sound best in a particular
HT?
Thank you.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
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> Greetings all,
>      Some housekeeping here in the errata dept:
>
> Bill Bremmer writes:
> >Now, as for the EBVT, Ed Foote's proclamation still holds:  No one has
> >EVER  been able to tune it other than myself.
>
>      No proclamation here on my part,  I believe Bremmer himself stated
that
> he hadn't seen anyone "get his EBVT right".    And I believe him.
>
> Bremmer again,
> >As Ed Foote says, the only way that ANYONE will ever be interested in
tuning
> > any kind of temperament other than ET is if they can do it with
deviations
> >of an FAC program.
>
>        A more correct, (and logical)  interpretation of what I said was
that
> the information for aurally tuning the temperaments has languished for 50
> years in the work of Barbour and Veroli, while the tuning community at
large
> shunned even their  investigation.  It was not until the programmable
> machines allowed the working tuner  easy reproduction of the  temperaments
> that there has been a resurgence in their use.  A short survey of
temperament
> awareness over the last 50 years seems to make this obvious.
>
> And in a twist of logic, Mr. Bremmer concludes:
>
> >Since I never do that, I don't teach that.  So what I
> >do,  whatever that is,  it is not worth teaching, in Ed Foote's opinion.
>
>      That is not my opinion.  Anyone's teaching methods will show their
worth
> in the actions taken by the students,  it matters little what other
> "teachers" say.  I am trying to convince as many technicians as possible
to
> begin investigating a wider variety of temperaments.  I do this in my own
> way.  If Mr Bremmer has a different approach,  go for it,  but don't hold
me
> or others responsible for its success.
> Regards,
> Ed Foote RPT
>