Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 2000/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 03:53:10 -0400

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:02:46 -0700, JamesLCook@-----.com said:

> Tony,
>
> Where and when was the organ built?
>
> >From An Introduction to Historical Tunings by Kyle Gann
> (http://home.earthlink.net/~kgann/histune.html):
>
> [Meantone tuning] ... survived in pockets of resistance, especially in the
> tuning of English organs. all the way through the 19th century.

Thanks for the URL.

It wasn't 'an' organ. Every now and then, listening to organ music, I
try the 'experiment' on myself.

But of course, I know what to expect...

As I said in another post, I'm not claiming any scientific basis for
this.

By the way, it's absolutely unequivocal that wind groups and string
quartets *don't* play in equal temperament. So for us, the things that
Gann writes on his page sound a bit silly. He talks as though we only
listen to keyboard music, and as though the experience of listening to
music not in equal temperament is a very rare one.

Not so.

Tony
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