|Errors Chart||Meantone Tunings| This site is intended to
explain something of the tuning of keyboard instruments and
bells; both were until recently, poorly understood. Now, much
has been published on the tuning of keyboard instruments, but
there is but little written upon the intervals of bells, and how
musical trends have influenced the bell founder. The revival of
unequal temperament (well tempered tuning) is slowly but surely
gathering pace. The discovery in 1975 by Dr. Herbert Anton
Kellner, that Bach's tuning for "Das Wohltemperirte Clavier"
(The Well Tempered Clavier) was for unequal temperament and NOT
equal, was certainly a major factor that triggered off this
revival. We are fortunate to live in an age when we are able to
listen to the expression and variety that unequal temperament
gives, in contrast to the colourless uniformity of equal
temperament. My work at the Whitechapel Bellfoundry in London,
where I am responsible for the tuning of tower bells, together
with an interest in the tuning of ke