Aaaaand another one tries...

to somehow apply certain just or near-just intervals without changing
the fingering from a standard 12-tet guitar. Anyone care enough to
figure out what the exact scale is?

http://www.guyguitars.com/truetemperament/tt_index.html

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mats Öljare <oljare@...> wrote:
>
> to somehow apply certain just or near-just intervals without changing
> the fingering from a standard 12-tet guitar. Anyone care enough to
> figure out what the exact scale is?
>
> http://www.guyguitars.com/truetemperament/tt_index.html

Hmmm ... it all looks very clever, but I don't know that the resultant
guitar fretboard would be quite as easy to use as they suggest; the
frets have moved. The proof of the pudding is, of course, in the
eating. Does anyone have musical recordings produced on a TT guitar?

Exploring the site, I note that they are fan's of Bradley Lehman's
reconstruction of Bach's tuning.

And look what I found, just by following links:
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html

Edward Foote gives an overview of piano (and other keyboard) tuning,
from meantone thru well-temperaments to equal temperament. Apart from
one phrase which may make it seem that most current research in
temperament and tuning is due to one individual (Owen Jorgensen), this
is a reasonably well-balanced introduction to the reasons behind the
piano's tuning history. He also includes an interesting chart,
graphically showing the "widths" (ie range in cents across all keys)
of the Major thirds in several temperaments:
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/3rds_chart.html

The page is copyright by Edward Foote 2001. Perhaps he would consent
to its inclusion on a microtonal wiki? Alternatively, one of our list
members may wish to write a similar introduction, independent of
Foote's. Either way, this could serve as a gentle way of leading many
newcomers into the world of alternate tunings.

Regards,
Yahya