Kirnberger's vision.

Johnny Reinhard offers:

> Kirnberger was an outstanding microtonalist in theory and practice,
>a violinist and keyboardist in Berlin. An antherm of Kirnberger's opens
>Bosanquet's book on temperament. "Greater certainly would be the gain of
>song if we really had the enharmonic intervals in our system. For then
>singers would accustom themselves, throm their youth up, to sing correcty the
>smallest enharmonic intervals, and the ear of the listener to appreciate
>them; and thereby would it be possible, in many cases, to make the expression
>of the passions very much stronger." Kirnberger's work is published by Yale
>University Press and I hope to report on it further.

Thanks, Johnny. I think Kirnberger and I have been listening to the same
sort of tuning. The question remains: what tuning? I made a similar remark
in my "Lies" book about sensitive tuning sending music in a kaleidoscope of
exciting directions (or something like that--I'm on the road and don't have
a copy handy). I'm in the awkward position of knowing what I'm hearing but
not having the numbers to describe it. However, I learn something every time
I log on to the tuning list. Thanks for your contributions.

Jerry