Jason, This is fascinating. What will you use this graph for? Is this done to help show a customer how wild one temp. might be from another? Will you then chart a comparison of all the temperaments together somehow? What is your background that taught you how to create this? Greg Jason Kanter wrote: > List, I've been experimenting with the graphic view of Historic > Temperaments. I'm dissatisfied with the view on Ron Koval's site because it > only shows major thirds, not fifths. Personally, I want to see both the > major third and fifth deviations from perfect (3:2) or just (5:4), so I can > see what the tradeoffs are in a given temperament. I've figured out the math > in Excel and created a system for generating a graphic, and tried to get the > graphic small enough to fit in a message here. So, without further > introduction, attached is a picture of the Werkmeister III temperament. > > My source for the data is the set of temperament files that are supplied > with TuneLab. > > Please let me know if you wouold find such charts useful, and which others > you would like me to post. I have done ET, Bremmer's EBVT, Coleman's 4, 11 > and 16, but since the GIF file of each one is about 19k, I can only post one > at a time. > > Also, if the GIF format cannot be read, please let me know. The smallest JPG > I have so far been able to create of this picture is 52k, too large for this > list. > > || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| > jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching > bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 > orcas island * 360 376 2799 > || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| > > Name: WerkmeisterIII.gif > WerkmeisterIII.gif Type: GIF Image (image/gif) > Encoding: base64 -- Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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