It is an opinion of a matematician-harpsichordist friend of mine: that he did, unequivocally. RT
> Werckmeister never accurately described equal temperament. Neidhart's > temperament was actually a whole set of temperaments, having in common > that > they were more consonant in the more frequently used keys and less > consonant > in the remoter keys. Not quite equal, then, were they? He had more than > two > dozen of these temperaments, and wanted them flexibly applied. He > recommended different ones for villages, towns and cities. Only for the > court did he have an equal temperament in mind. > > David > >>> The irony of mentioning Werckmeister's temperaments of 1691, is that in >>> his >>> 'Paradoxal-Discourse" published posthumously in 1707, his final words on > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
