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Baroque flute tuning again

🔗Tom Dent <stringph@...>

12/2/2008 10:08:23 AM

Some attempt at systematic findings here:

http://www.earlyflute.com/earlyflutenew7/pages/traversotuning1.html

The 'raw' deviations from equal are generally (very) large (tens of
cents)... they resemble 'pure' (ie JI) tuning and strongly unequal
meantones fairly well, but the general fit seems to be best for the
'Rameau' modified-meantone keyboard tuning described on p.1.

Of course, we can expect that players learnt to adjust tuning by many
methods, but this tells us what the size of their task was, and what
could make it less or more easy or successful.

~~~T~~~