whats the best temperament?

[Porritt, David]

Julia:

 

As old as I am I never got to meet Beethoven's piano tuner!  J  However,
if I were going to tune for an all-Beethoven recital I'd probably try to
talk the pianist into using a Thomas Young #1 temperament.  Directions
to tune it were written in 1799 and it is such a nice symmetrical
temperament.  I use it almost exclusively on our harpsichords.  

 

dave

 

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David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

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Subject: whats the best temperament?

 

Greetings,

 

        What is the best temperament (the most likely that Beethoven's
tuner used), to play Beethoven?

 

Julia

Reading, PA





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