Seems to be accurate enough. No temperament is accurate with lutes, once left hand starts fretting, and even more so higher up the neck, especially with such high action as, say, Hoppy Smith's. RT
> Werckmeister never accurately described equal temperament. Neidhart's > temperament was actually a whole set of temperaments, having in common > that > they were more consonant in the more frequently used keys and less > consonant > in the remoter keys. Not quite equal, then, were they? He had more than > two > dozen of these temperaments, and wanted them flexibly applied. He > recommended different ones for villages, towns and cities. Only for the > court did he have an equal temperament in mind. > > David > >>> The irony of mentioning Werckmeister's temperaments of 1691, is that in >>> his >>> 'Paradoxal-Discourse" published posthumously in 1707, his final words on > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
