On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote:

> I suspect my Artusi and Frescobaldi quotes disappeared in the crash of Mac
> last August, but it seems the Werckmeisrter quote survived:
> ".....
> The irony of mentioning Werckmeister's temperaments of 1691, is that in his
> 'Paradoxal-Discourse" published posthumously in 1707, his final words on
> temperament included the following:

It is a pity that only your late baroque references survived....  :-)

> "It is more than a century ago that a common mistake was made by musicians
> regarding temperament because they held onto the notion and kept thinking
> that all 3rds had to be pure and all 5ths should be out of tune by 1/4 of a

W's article seems to be interesting! Could you perhaps shortly explain its
relation to ET? I can see there is some relation, but it still is not it!
Perhaps it was only a wish to be there with your electronic Korg...  :)

Arto



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