Re: "well-tempered"?

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 3/21/02 5:24 PM, r l reid at ro (at) panix(dot)com wrote:


> So my piano, and my tsimbl, are tuned in what's known these days
> as "Thomas Young's 1800 Well Temperament".  Its major advantage
> over equal temperament is that it has wonderful major and minor thirds.

Roger, 

Great subject, I've been interested in and studied just intonation and other
temperaments for many years. I'm curious, were you able to tune your tsimbl
to Young well temperament without moving the bridges? Wouldn't you need
individual bridges to accomplish this?

Seth

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