Chris, Look at http://www.hurdygurdy.org Click on "Resources"
My paper for OTW 2002 gives the cent differences from equal to just Graham -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Nogy Sent: 15 April 2008 19:02 To: [email protected] Subject: [HG] temperament question Sorry, sent before I cleaned it up or changed the subject line. I'll try it again OK, all the talk about experimenting with and playing in different temperaments has got me thinking about other instruments. I just finished an electro-accoustic Germanic Rote, the original of which was dated to 581 AD. Probably not tuned in equal temperament. But was it tuned pythagorean, or some other form? There are some real temperament experts here, and this instrument, since it is not stopped or fretted, seems like a perfect way to experiment. It has 6 strings, all open without any fretting (I can get some intervals in the way a Jouhiko is stopped, and I can draw a primary harmonic at 50% of the string, but it is not a fretted or stopped instrument) It is tuned pentatonic, A3, C4, D4, E4, G4, A4 I use a Korg Chromatic tuner to tune it, and I think that since it contains both a 4th and a seventh, which if I understand are the most different between modern equal and older just temperaments, I will need to do small adjustments. I am tuning equal at A4 = 440, and my tuner will let me see cents and is accurate (I can tune by pludding the instrument in, so I avoid outside noises). Can someone give me a cents difference for each note that would put this instrument into a temperament that would be plausible for the time period that it comes from? Or help me to figure out how to develop that set of values? Thanks Chris
