[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm
From: |
Hans Åberg |
Subject: |
Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Feb 2018 14:20:43 +0100 |
> On 8 Feb 2018, at 11:26, N. Andrew Walsh <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> please note the qualifier "in the 18th century." The technological means to
> tune *exact* equal temperament weren't available until around the 1830s, and
> weren't in widespread use until later in the
> 19th, and only universal in the 20th, centuries.
Later, 1917, according to this link.
http://www.kylegann.com/histune.html
> Beethoven, for example, kept several cembalos in his studio, all tuned
> differently, and would hold parties where he'd improvise on them in
> succession to demonstrate their different affect. In fact, there is a mammoth
> study on 19th century temperaments (with the equally gargantuan title
> "Tuning: Containing the Perfection of Eighteenth-Century Temperament, the
> Lost Art of Nineteenth-Century Temperament and the Science of Equal
> Temperament," which if anybody on the list has and would be willing to sell
> me, please contact me privately!).
It might have been better to have keyboards closer to what orchestras play.
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, (continued)
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Hans Åberg, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Hans Åberg, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, N. Andrew Walsh, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Andrew Bernard, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, N. Andrew Walsh, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, David Kastrup, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, shane, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Hans Åberg, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, David Kastrup, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Hans Åberg, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm,
Hans Åberg <=
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Hans Åberg, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Andrew Bernard, 2018/02/08
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Urs Liska, 2018/02/07
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Hans Åberg, 2018/02/07
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Thomas Morley, 2018/02/07
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Karlin High, 2018/02/07
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Urs Liska, 2018/02/07
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Torsten Hämmerle, 2018/02/07
- Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, David Kastrup, 2018/02/07
Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm, Andrew Bernard, 2018/02/07