Re: yadda yadda, can't fathom any "broade 5ths", yadda yadda yadda

A.S. wrote (yet again):
> In Bach's (closer) circle we find even an warning about them:
> from Georg Andreas Sorge, who joined in 1747
> -the same jear as Bach- Mizler's society."
> as already mentioned too, in:
> /tuning/topicId_71865.html#71930
> "
> #3.
> Georg Andreas Sorge's
> "tuning-instructions" Hamburg 1744 p.22
> Schueler's Frage:
> "Kann man nicht auch einige Quinten ueber sich schweben lassen?"
> Lehrer Antwort:
> "Ja, aber es ist ganz unnoetig..."
> > Tr:
> Pupil's question:
> 'Can one also let some 5ths beat larger than pure?'
> Teacher's reply:
> 'Yes, but it's wholly unnecesarry...'
> "

Over the past couple of years, in various internet discussions, I've seen you bring up this same Sorge quote at least half a dozen times. And every time, you skip right over its important subtext. The quote is circumstantial evidence that some people REALLY WERE setting up temperaments with some slightly large 5ths in them, and presumably tolerating or even liking the results. Why else would Sorge have his straw-man student character even bring up the question, to be shot down with Sorge's presumably better way?

Brad Lehman