RE: [tuning] More sweet Mozart

>I listened to this piece in 5-limit COFT and could hardly believe it
>wasn't adaptively tuned, so sweet did all the chords sound. See if you
>agree! Mozart, Andante für Orgelwalze, K.616, sequence by Hans Jakob
>Heldstab.

> http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl/

>File: kv616.zip.

Will you please post the fifths and thirds, or at least cents deviations
from 12-tET, of this COFT?

An _Orgelwalze_ is a mechanical (player) organ with the tones to be played
selected by pins sticking up from the surface of a large, rotating metal
disk, a more sophisticated version of the familiar organ grinder's
instrument. I believe that the instrument for which Mozart (and other
contemporaries) composed had only a single 8� flute register.

If mechanical organs were tuned as other organs in the era, then some form
of meantone would have been likely, and a 5-limit COFT is very close to
meantone in character. On the other hand, such instruments are often played
out-of-doors where changes in the weather probably meant the instrument was
either constantly ou-of-tune, or constantly being adjusted by the
performer...

----- Original Message -----
From: John A. deLaubenfels <jadl@idcomm.com>
To: <tuning@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 4:49 AM
Subject: [tuning] More sweet Mozart

I listened to this piece in 5-limit COFT and could hardly believe it
wasn't adaptively tuned, so sweet did all the chords sound. See if you
agree! Mozart, Andante f�r Orgelwalze, K.616, sequence by Hans Jakob
Heldstab.

http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl/

File: kv616.zip.

BTW, does anybody know what an "Orgelwalze" is?