The Bach Temperament

[Dempsey Jr., Paul E]

Ed, 
Earlier this month Marshall hosted the West Virginia Music Educators
Assoc. Convention, a state wide gig. 

Featured in several of the events were programs by David Breitman, who
brought his McNulty fortepiano. Also on hand was one of our faculty
members Phillip Belt instrument, a copy of a Walther.

Both instruments were tuned in the Lehman/Bach.

Comments were copious and positive. 

I'm using this tuning as the default tuning in several practice rooms.

No one has super glued my door closed yet...;-)

Regards,

Paul Dempsey RPT







Greetings, 
      Well, I tried it.  The tuning scheme that Mr. Lehman extrapolated
from 
the inscription on Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".  The customer was 
astonished at the effect.  This is a customer that had been using  a
later 
well-temperament, and he felt that the Bach tuning was a large
improvement.  He plays a 
lot of Chopin, as well as Beethoven, Haydn, and Bach.  
     It seems that Bach knew what he was doing( does that surprise
anyone?).  
I would encourage tuners to try it and have a listen, this thing has
some 
serious claim to authenticity and fits well with virtually all the music
I have 
heard played on it, jazz and 20th century standard stuff, too.
Regards, 

Ed Foote RPT

Paul E. Dempsey, RPT
Piano Technician Sr.
Marshall University
Huntington, WV
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