Hi Claudio,
You wrote:
'we know that Dolmetsch MAY have been
tuning in meantone [...] I cannot see why this is relevant for present day "temperament research"'

THen one could use Tempest to remove uncertainty by checking what temperaments Dolmetsch used in recordings, and  if non-equal, which. This isn't research into 18th-century temperaments, but it is research into early 20th-century temperaments and knowledge about them. If it isn't already the subject of several postgraduate projects it doubtless will be soon. (By the way, I may be wrong, but I seem to remember the Germans were onto circular temperaments a bit earlier than 1947, at least at a musicological level; I mean people like Handschin and Dupont.)

I am less sensitive to the word "research", maybe because I am in academia and have seen (and contributed) my share of bad research done up neatly for presentation at conferences. But if I can use something to find out something I am curious about, then I am happy to call it a research tool.

Greetings - there is still a minute spot of blue in the sky here-
Michael

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