David, I have been assembling a graphic view of many of the HTs, and it will be available on the web "real soon now" for you to examine. This will give you a very good sense of which temperaments are more extreme than others and how they compare. Be patient; it will either be on Bill Bremmer's site or on mine, which is not yet hatched. But the file with 70 HTs in it is almost ready. Cordially || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vanderhoofven" <dkvander@joplin.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: Opening a can of worms again | Greetings, | | I have recently taken the plunge into tuning Well Temperaments. I am now | using Bill Bremmer's EBV temperament as my default tuning style (when I am | not tuning ET). But I would like to gradually wean my customers away from | this towards something stronger. Assuming that the EBV is a mild tuning | and there are a lot of other tunings that offer more contrast, what steps | would I take to get from here to there? Which temperaments would be | recommended as intermediate steps between one end of the spectrum and the | other? | | I personally like Bill Bremmer's 1/7 comma modified mean tone temperament, | but have lost instructions for how to tune this again. Can anyone provide | offset numbers for this? | | Suppose that I tune EBV this time, and next time I want to tune a little | more aggressively. Which temperament is next in line? And then which | temperament comes after that one, and so forth? I heard a piano tuned by | Ed Foote in the Coleman 11 tuning which I thought was really good. Where | would the Coleman 11 fit in? | | Sorry for opening the can of worms again. I don't have a copy of Owen' | Jorgensen's books to read, or that might answer my questions. | | Also, Can anyone comment on which temperament of tuning is the most solid | and stable? I would like my tunings to last the longest time possible. Is | ET best for tuning stability? Or is there another temperament which is | best for tuning stability? | | Thanks! | | David A. Vanderhoofven | Joplin, MO |
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