Topic: Tempest great tool for estimating the temperament from recording
Surprisingly I have not found mentioned one of the greatest research tools for investigating temperaments:
TempEst
http://www.isophonics.net/sawa/tempest/
just upload an .mp3 or .wav file with a recorded solo piece played on a harpsichord with no other instruments, (YES harpsichord ONLY, NOT PIANO)
I am still trying to figure out how it works, according to this research paper, in its development they used the modeled Harpsichords from Pianoteq
The real harpsichord recordings were played by Dan
Tidhar on a Rubio double-manual harpsichord in a small
hall. The synthesized recordings were performed on a digital
keyboard by Dan Tidhar and rendered from MIDI files using
the physical modeling synthesis software Pianoteq (Pianoteq,
2010).
the version used was Pianoteq 3 see the acknowledgements section of Estimation of harpsichord inharmonicity and temperament from musical recordings
[h1]Trying out TempEst the Online tool for estimatings instrument tuning parameters[/h1]
But when trying to identify temperaments, I created a recording of the piece F.Couperin "Les baricades misterieuses" (Download midi file here using the scala file “werck3.scl” copied below:
! werck3.scl
!
Andreas Werckmeister's temperament III (the most famous one, 1681)
12
!
256/243
192.18000
32/27
390.22500
4/3
1024/729
696.09000
128/81
888.26999
16/9
1092.18000
2/1
which can be downloaded here
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scales.zip
werck3.scl “Andreas Werckmeister's temperament III (the most famous one, 1681)”
and it was labeled as
rdfs:label """SixthCommaMeantone_shift""" ;
and the closest sounding temperament I have been able to find on YouTube to this werck3.scl (with a=415) is this Elena Zhukova Video here:
which was labeled:
rdfs:label """Valotti_shift""" ;
I then recorded the audio of the Youtube video version by claudio di Veroli:
Claudio di Veroli (Tuning: ordinaire (Rousseau) temperament)
and TempEst labeled it as
rdfs:label """FifthComma""" ;
I found This other temperament in Buxtehude - Toccata in G - BuxWV 164- Christian Zell Harpsichord (Werckmeister III) also descrbed as a:
rdfs:label """FifthComma""" ;