A question on temperament-Ron

[Richard Brekne]

Grin.. do you have any names for these two temps.. ??

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

> >Obviously the mini-techs will be the best place to be to get a handle on
> >these skills, but coming to the mini-tech having tried other temperments
> >will enhance our learning curve.
> >
> >Where are there sources?
>
> Greetings,
>    Here is one,
>  The following is the 1840 Tuner's Guide Temperament #1 (® Owen Jorgensen
> 1991).  It provides a conservative digression between sweet thirds and some
> with "energy".  There are no checks, you will develop a sense of tonal
> comparison after you do it and listen a little.
>
> 1.  C5 to fork
> 2.  C5 to C4   Just
> 3.  C4 to  G4  temper narrow to approx 1.3 bps
> 4   G4 to G3  Just
> 5.  G3 to D4  narrow 1.3 bps
> 6.  D4 to A4     narrow 1.3
> 7   A4 to A3  just
> 8.  A3  to E4    narrow 1.3
>
> Trial chord here is C4-E4-G4-C5 and it should sound beautiful.  The C-E will
> be beating about half normal speed .
>
> 9.    E4 to B4      narrow by .7 BPS,  this is a nicer fifth than those
> previous!
> 10   B4 to B3    Just
> 11.  B3  to F#4    narrow by .7 BPS
> 12   F#4  to  F#3  just
> 13.  F#3 to C#4  narrow  by .7 BPS
> 14.  C#4  to G#4  Just
> 15.  G#4  to G#3  Just
> 16.  C5  to F4  narrow by 1.3 bps
> 17.  F4 to Bb3  narrow by 1.3 bps
> 18.  Bb3  to Bb4 Just
> 19.   Tune Eb4  to make two identical fifths between Bb-Eb and Ab-Eb.  These
> fifths should be pure, but can stand a little temperament.
>
>       This tuning provides a varied set of consonances, in the thirds, that
> follow the amount of key signature. If you modulate by fourths, from C, tonic
> thirds should increase in tempering until you reach F#, at which point it
> will begin heading back toward "home".  The art is in getting a smooth
> progression, with no reversals on the way out or in.