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Providing historically-accurate resources on tuning and temperament
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What’s New?
Color-coded temperament comparison charts
More 18th century tuning technology: Strähle’s Tredekachordium
Quick Reference sheet for programming all the temperaments – 11/03/13
State-of-the-Art tuning technology, 1758 – 3/10/12
The “HIPP” Tuner’s Manifesto
About reference pitch
Historical reference pitch
Why use historical reference pitch?
Electronic Tuners
Human versus machine listening
How to use electronic tuning aides
Dealing with IRT’s (Intransigent Reference Transposers)
Tuner Apps
PitchLab Guitar Tuner
ClearTune
insTuner Chromatic Tuner
The graphics
Methodology
New graphic format – 1/10/2012
New graphics: the Diesis Stack and Matrix – 1/10/2012
Meantones
Regular Meantones: 2/7 to 1/6 comma
Mollified Meantones
Schlick 1511
Mersenne’s “Serendipitous” Mollified Meantone
Werckmeister’s 1698 Continuo
Rameau 1726
D’Alembert 1752 “Le tempérament ordinaire”
Rousseau 1767
Padua
Young’s (Real) Temperament 1800
Well temperaments
Circulating
Werckmeister’s “III”, “IV” and “V” Pragmatic Circulating
Bendeler’s I, II and III Pragmatic Circulating
Neidhardt’s 1724/32 Recommended Rational Circulating Temperaments
Sorge’s Rational Circulating Temperaments
Young’s Compromise (Rational)
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Regular Meantones: 2/7 to 1/6 comma
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Meantones
Regular Meantones: 2/7 to 1/6 comma
