At 10:55 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >after telling the story of finding an old business card: > >"Well tempered tunings" > > >So he couldn't think of anything else but to call it "well >tempered" >Yep. When writing history there is that old "prove your source". >But personal anecdote is acceptable to an extent Without being able to interview the distributor of that business card and ascertain exactly what was meant, we are left with a linguistic problem. Not what is is, but how "well" is used. Is "well" an attribute of the tuning or the tuner's ability? "How well did you do that temperament", means something entirely different than "how did you do that well temperament". I could well be that he was just advertising his ability to do tempered tunings well. No more, no less. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 - People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. -Bryan White
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