Stanhope

[Don]

Hi,

Is this the same Earl? 

http://www.thoughtcafe.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?articleid=8183

It would seem that there are a great many more "scales" than we tuners may
know about.

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~qruzicka/Scales.txt.iso-8859-1

At 10:23 PM 9/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>The Stanhope treatise was published in 1806.    In 1807 came,
>"Plain Statement of Earl Stanhope's Temperament", by JW Callcott.
>In 1811 was James Broadwood "article" on how to tune ET.    The
>Broadwood article has been typed out with comments if anyone is
>interested. Click on remoody@midstatesd.net
>     There is mention of a Stanhope pamphlet but only a mention.
>According to Broadwood, ET "being in most general use, and
>because,
>of the various systems, it has been pronounced the best deserving
>that appellation by Haydn, Mozart, and other masters of harmony."
>    Haydn died in 1809.  James was supposed to an intimate
>end.    ---ric
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jason Kanter <jkanter@rollingball.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:12 AM
>Subject: Re: The True Properties of EBVT
>
>
>> >From Jorgensen, page 295:
>>
>> "Charles Earl Stanhope's treatise, "Principles of the Science of
>Tuning
>> Instruments with Fixed Tones," created much interest and
>controversy.
>> Immediately, negative reviews appeared. Some of these were
>caused by
>> Stanhope's statement that half of the musicians preferred the
>idea of equal
>> temperament while the other half were diametrically opposed to
>it. This
>> divided the musicians into camps, some of whom were offended by
>Stanhope's
>> extreme criticism of equal temperament and also by his
>implication that
>> everyone who had heard the Stanhope temperament was converted to
>it."
>>
>> It's a steady state universe.
>>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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