> Lesley wrote: I think it's more likely to be "evenly -beating". Do a
search for Bill Bremmer's PDF on Equal-beating Victorian Temperment.

Just in case, I have performed the suggested search, i.e. Bremmer on his
Equal-beating Victorian Temperament:

http://www.billbremmer.com/ebvt/

Bremmer describes a unequal temperament (with no attempts at a historical
justification, and its use in pianos). As supporting material, a link brings
to the following chart: 

http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm

where it is stated that "The temperament dates and detailed temperament
information are drawn primarily from Jorgensen's tome, Tuning".

This is unfortunate. Please refer to Fred Sturm's conclusions (agreed by
every single temperament scholar I know of) about the validity (or lack of
it) of the main ideas in Jorgensen's "Tuning".

Anyway, Bremmer's temperament is unrelated to the Dutch expression
"Evenredig zwevend" for Equal Temperament. 

Best

CDV


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