Topic: Uploaded a Victorian temperament preset

Still researching this temperament, which has only recently been given the current name. Apparently very popular throughout the 19th century. (The rollingball site's timeline of composers and tunings is good for glancing at how long this tuning lasted and whose work may have used it.)

Several realizations (if anyone is still tracking these presets...):

After entering the tuning, I thought it sounded familiar: apparently, the Steinway D and M are tuned to other variations of this Victorian temperament. I thought that was an unlikely coincidence until I tried out some midi files and found that this tuning appears to have been popular for much longer than I'd thought. Reminds me of 30-50's jazz and Hollywood recordings. Still hear it at times:

http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...%20Fly.mp3

http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...20Love.mp3

http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...%20Mic.fxp

(There's an off treble note in the "Our Love..." recording. I re-tuned it in the fxp and you won't hear it in the "Victorian Fly.")


Brighter than the D or the M tuning--the bass is less detuned and in the original tuning record, the treble goes past the top of our Detune page. It also works for the Chopin and other things. But a different micing for these midi renderings. But Glenn: this one won't quite handle the lowest bass notes in your O Come Emanuel piece. It may be that the hammer strikes were just too hard for this preset during the original midi recording, or it may be that I don't know how to correct it...But now we may know why the Chopin sounded good using the D preset: it may have been close to his original tuning?) Lots of edits here: had to move the strike positions and more to get this to sound good.

(I will create the Scala files for these, but there are several things I need to learn there...)

Last edited by Jake Johnson (23-12-2009 18:33)