Re #867 WTC

Paul Rapoport writes;

>> Of course, WTC is hardly the music to use extreme tunings on in the
name
>>of historical authenticity (there may be other reasons).

I am not sure of what is meant by "extreme" here. {pardon me if I have
totally missed the point}.
If something like a Pietro Aaron (1/4 comma), is used, yes that is
extreme for WTC...............
The other temperments that were being published at the time, ( Peter
Prelleur, Gottfried Keller, and Roger North), all contained a wide variety
of tempering in the thirds, but no wolf intervals.
Amongst the well temperaments, the Werckmiester III is fairly extreme,
but the WTC I goes well in it. (perhaps not on a small, highly inharmonic
piano, but on harpsichords, or 9' concert grands, this temperament is
beautiful).

Regards to all,
Ed Foote
Precision Piano Works
Nashville, Tn.

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