Topic: A new Italian temperament: CHas
This is a recording done on a Steinway S to demonstrate a recently developed Italian temperament, called CHas:
http://www.box.net/shared/od0d7506cv
It's a variation of Equal Temperament that divides two octaves equally instead of a single octave. The creator argues, in part, that expanding the octave into two octaves provides a better sound that partly takes care of IH almost automatically on a modern piano.
When it was first introduced, without any recording, and only defended as a mathematical formula, it was attacked, but I'm liking the recordings I'm hearing. (EDIT: I should add that CHas is not exactly just a temperament. It is a theory based on dividing the two octaves equally. The tuning\temperament emerge from the theory, which in turn arose from the developer's extensive experience in tuning.
Seems as though there are several recent variations of ET out there. There is a long, long, often contentious, thread about this temperament over at http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthre...874/1.html . The developer, from Sicily, had a few problems with English, with the form of his presentation, and used formulas and variables lost some readers. He was hit fairly hard there. It took him some time to understand that people needed to hear what he was talking about. Now, there are several recordings, and people have become more interested. There's a tuning sequence, but not one with cent deviations or herz specifications, at http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthre...050/1.html . Not for the faint of heart.
Not suggesting that this replace conventional variations on ET, of course. Just thought it was an interesting sound.