Sixth Comma Meantone, further clarified

Bradley Lehman has chosen to "clarify a few things."

- "Werckmeister III" is not a harpsichord temperament at all, but was
rather specified by Werckmeister for organs.

But a keyboard tuning is a keyboard tuning. There is no difference, except that the organ tuning has to be more exact due to the sustain and expense of the organ tuning. It is a red herring to claim otherwise. While WIII is described first in Orgelprobe, it appears later in his Musicalishe Temperatur. A keyboard, is a keyboard, is a keyboard. And Baroque music involved keyboard in virtually EVERY piece written.

- It's not reputed of JSB that he retuned an entire harpsichord in
Werckmeister III in 15 minutes. It's reputed that JSB tuned entire
harpsichords in 15 minutes, with nothing said one way or the other
about W-III *ever* in any of his practice.

The point I raised was in response to Tom Dent's concerns about the difficulty of retuning during a concert. My point was that it could be done under the circumstances of WIII. And now it is clear that Bradley is able to tune a multitude of tunings on a harpsichord even quicker than Bach, or Werckmeister.

Johnny