Apologies for jumping to conclusions! I’ve been out of the loop too long-
hadn’t caught up with Sturm.
Regards
Lesley de Voil


On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 05:55, J. Claudio Di Veroli <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> > 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: to


>
> 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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