Temperaments

[Jason Kanter]

Well, there are some suggestions in Jorgensen. You might send him to my website at http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm -- he can click the "Victorian Well" category and look at De Morgan, about which Jorgensen says "Chopin's music taken as a whole would sound smoother in this temperament." Chopin  apparently avoided the keys of C Major and A minor, and Jorgensen speculates that in well temperaments these keys were too "dull" for Chopin's taste for exuberance and excitement. The De Morgan is a "reverse well" in which the key of C has the most expanded major third. 

The other direction (also on the same link in my website) is the Broadwood's Best, which Jorgensen says was a tuning probably done by "the great Alfred Hipkins," who was Chopin's favorite personal piano tuner. Hipkins was also probably responsible for the "Broadwood Quasi-Equal" which you can find by clicking the Quasi-Equal category and then Broadwood. These three temperaments are all quite different, but they represent the range of variety that Chopin probably was working with as he composed.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: Temperaments


| Hi folks... got this question in from my friend Alex Galembo and am
| posting it as per his request. Anyone with good advice can either post
| to the list or write to Alex using the email address below
| 
| Cheers
| RicB
| 
| Alexander Galembo writes :
| 
| My friend, a piano technician from St. Petersburg, Russia, wrote me
| asking me whether I know anything about some specific "Chopin pure
| interval tuning" or "Chopin temperament" - But I never heard about that.
| 
| Do you have any knowledge in this specific quesstion?field? I am not at
| the piano technicians list presently, so I cannot ask the list myself,
| more that I even don't know how exactly it is called in English.
| I tried internet, but did not find anything-
| 
| 
| 
| Alexander Galembo, Ph.D.
| Visiting researcher
| Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing
| Royal Inst. of Technology
| Stockholm, Sweden
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| 
| E-mail:     alex@speech.kth.se
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| WEB:        http://www.geocities.com/galembo_alex/
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| 
| -- 
| Richard Brekne
| RPT, N.P.T.F.
| UiB, Bergen, Norway
| mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
| http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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