Re: [tuning] Abstract/Summary: 'Pure harmony'/ 'Reyne harmonie' in Alkmaar, b...

In a message dated 4/7/03 3:22:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ibo.ortgies@musik.gu.se writes:

> The hypothesis that organ builder
> Frans Caspar Schnitger tuned the organ in this modern way as early
> as 1725, however, turns out to be incorrect; Schnitger used the
> standard temperament of those days, which means that the organ had
> a traditional meantone temperament with pure thirds. This fact is
> corroborated by the history of the pitch of organs; by the history
> of music, which shows that organs were used in combination with
> other instrument, making it obligatory for the organist to
> transpose every now and then; and by the fact that the meantone
> temperament was the standard temperament to the Northern German
> organ building tradition to which Schnitger belonged.
>
>

Is this Schnitger related to Arp Schnitger who was Andreas Werckmeister's
friend?

best, Johnny Reinhard