> John wrote: Surprisingly I have not found mentioned one of the greatest
research tools for investigating temperaments:
TempEst: http://www.isophonics.net/sawa/tempest/
Just upload an .mp3 or .wav file with a recorded solo piece played on a
harpsichord with no other instruments, (YES harpsichord ONLY, NOT PIANO)
Hi John, I apologise for my late reply.
Since the temperament in a harpsichord lasts for a few weeks (with good
luck), this tool is only useful for recently-tuned instruments (mostly we
know how it was tuned) or, as you say, for recordings. So, if we have a
harpsichord recording and do not know the temperament the instrument was
tuned to, this tool will tell us. We can find out, for example, at what time
in his career Gustav Leonhardt first recorded on a harpsichord tuned to an
unequal temperament. Interesting, I guess.
However, you do not qualify this as a curiosity but as a "research tool for
investigating temperaments". AFAIK, musical temperament in history and in
practice is a vast field in which researchers have investigated (1) which
temperaments were in widespread use in history, (2) which was the tuning
procedure, (3) which music was meant for which temperament, (4) which is the
best way to tune them today and (5) which interesting musical-acoustic
properties every single temperament has, and (6) perhaps many more matters.
At this point, I fail to understand in which of these research areas the
SAWA-Tempest tool can be of any use. Guess you surely know.
Thanks!
CDV
http://temper.braybaroque.ie/
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