--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Dent" <stringph@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Afmmjr@ wrote:
> >
> > musicologists are the ones that believe Johann Sebastian Bach is in
> equal temperament,
[...]
> Still believe Bach goes with 100% Werckmeister-Three and nothing else?
> That, if you like, is the modern 'historical' orthodoxy, not ET.

> ~~~T~~~


I agree with Thomas - all theoretical (historoical or modern)
temperament models designs have never been shown to be related to
Bach. Closest might have been Neidhardt, but even that connection is
also not strong enough and the famous quote from after Bach's death by
his son-in-law Altnickol (about the temperament of the
Hildebrandt-organ in Naumburg, St. Wenzel) allows such a broad margin
of interpretations that it can't pass mere speculation.

Until today there is not a single piece of evidence, that allows us to
state which temperament Bach might have preferred at any time. This is
also the view hold within Bach-scholarship.


Kind regards

Ibo