[quote]I've just repeated the calculations with Young's temperament (similar to Valotti) and here the best keys are C, D, F, G and B-flat. B-flat is as good as C - but not better. [/quote]
If one is looking at temperaments and such, a good website to aid understanding through visual graphs is the following: <http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm> The reason that brass instruments and even wind instruments are hardly mentioned in the earliest treatises have more to do with the easily bendable nature of our pitch production and the fact that most composers and theorists were working at stringed keyboard instruments. These keyboard instruments were very unstable in regards to pitch stability and it was necessary to be able to tune the thing oneself and be able to make minor repairs/adjustments. Indeed, in a concert, a harpsichordist might touch up tuning in between each piece. Organ tuning is yet again it's own specialty due to the inharmonicity factors unique to it's pipes and tone production. The Jack Attack! _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
