As to the matter of conclusive.... we of course agree. I dont anyone can claim conclusive proof one way or the other either... not by a long shot. That said, I /believe/ that composers were affected by the sounds around them... perfect pitch aware or not. I try to imagine my self in that same enviroment... could I not be influenced ? Could it not be a significant part of why I choose any particular key ? Well... we will never know perhaps... I'm not sure it really matters much. Certainly much in that world is there to be explored... if not re-explored. Cheers RicB While I think the exploration of WT has it's own interest in terms of what the composers of that day may have been hearing when they actually played their works on the piano or related instrument, I think it is far from conclusive that those who often conceived of and composed things away from the instrument, with a keen sense of absolute pitch and the unique characteristics of each key apart from the piano, with orchestration ever in their minds would have been driven by tuning style that was evolving even during their own lifetimes.
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