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Thought I'd fork this off from the WTC.

Discuss Well-Tempering, and post any well-temperaments you like.

Get feedback on your temperaments.

This is my favorite of the ones I've invented:



All the keys sound good in it, but retain their own character. I'd like to hear opinions on it

Is your temperament meant to perform early music on, or is it to invent a new kind of musical flavour? Also, an unequal temperament has to have a starting reference note specified, such as C or A, so that each key flavour will be defined. You do not specify a starting reference note. If you are designing a temperament to perform early music then the aim of most temperaments was to produce calmness in the "closer" keys and sonority in the "remoter" keys. If you temperament starts on C then I see that the M3rd on the root, which is probably the intervals that most governs key flavour, is wider than ET and thus will give C major a very "sharp" sound which is inconsistent with what was probably desired for C major.

Perhaps you are inventing something new that will colour existing music with a new sound, but is it based on a theory of harmonious relationships, or is it based on what pleases your hearing?

Do you have any recordings of a piano set to this temperament?

Here's a blues thing in it: http://www.box.com/s/4ce94139f6e84ef67e7d

It seems to keep some of the tensions of ET, too, if I'm hearing it correctly. You're working to keep all of the keys more consonant than in a Well that has stronger wolf tones in some keys?

Yeah, well I've been fiddling around with tunings/scales for a couple years now.

I don't have any specific goal, but I like this one because

It keeps the white notes just (ie pure pythagorean tuning).
and
All the major/minor work in it and have their own character.

I, for one, like it quite a bit. If I had a client who only played jazz/blues, I'd give it a try. But I'm not sure I'd like it for classical purposes. JMO.

Funny, I actually developed this one thinking more of baroque era music. I'm happy you like it all the same

If anyone has any suggestions for a classical piece to hear in it, I'll upload it.

Just has to be easily available in .midi format though.

I suspect that it would sound different on a piano, rather than a digital instrument. The tolerances on a piano are not the same, nor the interactions within intervals.