Temperaments

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings,

      If I use one of the Victorian Wells wont it be too "gentle" for 
Beethoven. The purpose of my wandering experiment here, is to reproduce what 
Beethoven intended. Woudn't it be more effectual for me to use a plain Well such as 
the Valotti? What, can we guess, did Beethoven's tuner use? Also, in the 
Jorgensen book, he comments on the year it was used and who came up with it. How did 
Jorgensen know what tuners were using at any particular time? ..My guess is he 
did ALOT of research. Just who was this fellow?...a mathemetition...a tuner 
no doubt too!

Do you think the Valotti is a good choice for Beethoven piano sonatas?

Thanks
Julia Gottshall
Reading, PA
In a message dated 9/17/2006 11:48:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
jkanter at rollingball.com writes:
Julia, since this question has occurred to you, it will be well worth 
devoting some of your curiosity to exploring this site: 
http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm
(my own work, stimulated originally by Ed Foote)

I agree with Ed's moderate response -- it's personal taste -- but I find that 
a mild well temperament is very pleasing for any kind of music. The milder 
major third in the "white" keys is a sound that we just do not hear very much, 
and it tastes good. Try something from the group on my website called 
"Victorian Well", or one of the mild "modern well" temperaments like Wendell's "Tweaked 
Synchronous Victorian" -- which I just put on a Stwy B for a very talented 
(and delighted) pianist who plays a lot of Beethoven and Chopin. 

Jason
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