Subject: Which temperament for which music?? Another criterium, perhaps? The strangest thoughts went through my mind this afternoon as I was tuning my department head's home S&S D. Since I have not had any time to do any research, I'll pose the question to the assembled wisdom of the list. Could a rough approximation of an [note: "an" _not_ "the"] appropriate temperament be inferred by the range of the instrument for which it was originally composed? {stringed keyboard, that is...} I'm thinking of a really rough correlation such as: Less than 5 octave - Pythagorean possible, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 comma Meantone. 5 octave - any Meantone which fits the key signature or Well temperament. 5 1/2 - 7 octave - Well, Victorian, possibly ET. 7 1/3 & larger - Probably ET, though key appropriate Well possible. Has definitive research been done along this line, or am I just recloaking a chronological chart? ©Conrad Hoffsommer - Luther College, Decorah, IA My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely, and tomorrow a search party is starting.
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