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Re: [tuning] Re: Werckmeister on the move.2

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2/24/2002 7:54:16 AM

WERCKMEISTER III-VI (octaves not included) and his descriptions from Chapt. 20

werck iii has 39 different intervals, with a minimum difference of 6 cents
(for 1024 complete cents in the octave)--This is what the book is about,
oodles of description, unlike the following 3 variants.

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> cents.

"is a temperament which is also contained in the Orgel-Probe and is
subdivided through 1/3 comma." AW

> >werck v has 41 different intervals, with a minimum difference of 6 cents.
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"is still another temperament, subdivided by 1/4 comma." AW

> >werck vi has 106 different intervals, with a minimum difference of 0.1 cents
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"is a temperament which has nothing to do with the same subdivision of
the comma. However, in practice, it is so correct that one can be satisfied
with that (about which there shall be special comments later). AW

Best, Johnny Reinhard

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