Following is a link to the Acoustical Society of America...
A great number of documents exploring a great number of aspects of the science of acoustics...
Even a surprising number of documents involving, you guessed it, pipe organs...
There are PHYSICISTS writing position papers on of all things, unequal temperament 8)
Not to mention contributions from organ builders...
http://asadl.org/ (http://asadl.org/)
Eric
KB7DQH
Hi!
Thanks so much for that link.
The problem is that one doesn't often hear organ recitals in appropriate temperaments as so few organs have ordinarily been built to an unequal temperament - St Maximin is worth listening to for that reason, and Albi, and some classical revival instruments too. But so many instruments have been converted to Equal Temperament and even many modern classical revival instruments have not bitten the bullet in using an unequal temperament.
This is why I regard concerts at Hammerwood Park on my concert instrument as being important so that we can hear the effects and organists can experiment. There are a few links on:
http://www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/concerts.htm (http://www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/concerts.htm) Organists are welcome to try, play for fun, practice or recitals and audiences are welcome.
However, the reason for writing is a link to a recording where the effects exploited by 19th century composers are clearly audible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8FjHvHu30 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8FjHvHu30)
Best wishes
David P