Reply to Bill Alves

I think Brian's point is that music at the time tended to have at least 14
different notated notes, so that if meantone tuning were to be used, the
12-note keyboard would lead to some horrible wolves. Just tuning of course
would require vastly more keys, assuming it could be considered a
satisfactory tuning (which I don't happen to believe).


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