> - hardly, I suggest, a convincing case for >their adoption in modern times.
No, the case for their adoption in modern times is getting an F# instead of a Gb and a C# instead of a Db in meantone tuning! For that, I am willing to have Gallilei's ghost stare dissaprovingly at me. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html