Talk:Young temperament

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The two tables contradict eachother a tiny bit, 1 cent to be exact. The table of thirds states that the C-E third is 5 cents wide, meaning 386+5=391 cents. However, if we look in the table that compares this tuning with equal temperament, we learn that the C is 6 cents up and the E is 2 cents down, so that is 400-6-2=392 cents.

I wonder weather if the users of wikipedia are interested to learn about the character of these well-tempered tuning variants. I'm tuning one of the grandpiano in our school to a different variant every so many months. Every key gets it's own mood, but as we modulate from one key to the other, the tuning itself gets a general mood in itself.

Werckmeister III is very serious. This fits Bachs music very well. Young is very well accepted by people who are used to 12 tone equal temperament, as none of the major thirds sound radically low. In general it sounds a lot lighter than Werckmeister. It's happy and jumpy in the most used keys.

Krooshof 22:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)