Offset chart for HTs

Tvak@AOL.COM Tvak@AOL.COM
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 23:43:09 EST


Recently there was a post which contained an offset chart for Robert 
Wendell's "Lite" Victorian Well-Temperament.  I reproduce it below:

C= +4.88
B+ -1.0
A#= +3.9
A= 0
G# = +3.9
F# + 0.0
F = +4.88
E + -1.0
D# = +2.93
D = + 1.95
C# = =0.98

This offset chart started at "C" and descends chromatically.  Usually, these 
charts ascend chromatically, and I have always assumed that "C" is "C4", and 
ascends through "B4".  Am I to assume that in this case, "C" refers to "C5"?  
And "C#" refers to "C#4"?

I tried entering it both ways, i.e, "C" being "C4", and also as "C5" and I 
got completely different values in RCT.  Therefore it seems to me that it 
matters greatly as to which octave these offset values are intended.  

I would like to try this temperament, but since I have two of them listed in 
my HT file, I'm not sure which one would be the one Robert Wendell intended.

Tom Sivak


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