The offsets immediately following are(or at least were when this post left my computer!) the Wendell 2002 Victorian or 'Lite' temperament. I've checked and double checked. I checked the offsets for this temperament in the Jason Kanter Historical Temperament graphs, and those are in agreement, though rounded off to the nearest 1/10th cent,which for practical tuning won't make any difference. I've been watching as best I can, and it seems as if gremlins are at work as this temperament goes back and forth in tiny bits in the electron stream that is the internet - it's probably human error somewhere along the line, but I really thought I'd seen some deterioration of the data when there had only been copy and send activities. It is my intention that "=" means "equals" and there should be adequate spaces so that the "+" and "-" signs are clear in their meaning. B and E have values of -1 cent and I wrote that as "-1.0" so there would not be confusion over whether it might be -0.1 without the 0 and the decimal point. ...I'm curious to see how this post looks when it comes back to me thru pianotech, and pianotech digest, both of which I recieve currently, due to some overlap and confusion in getting started with a new computer. (double and triple checked!) Wendell 2002 Victorian "lite" temperament C= +4.88 B = -1.0 A#= +3.9 A = 0 G# = +1.95 G = +3.9 F# = 0 F = +4.88 E = -1.0 D# = +2.93 D = +1.95 C# =+0.98 From: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> Date: Sat Mar 09, 2002 09:43:26 PM US/Pacific To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Offset chart for HTs Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org What happened to the value and note for "G" ? Also is the second equal sign for C# supposed to be a negative or minus sign? "B" has both a plus and a minus ... which is it? This raises the question (in my mind anyway) what the equals sign means for any of the places that you use it? Could you please explain? Greg Tvak@AOL.COM wrote: 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
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