I have never heard a more clear demonstration of the impact of different tempraments, nor, I think, such an extensive collection!
It's like a demo of all the ways an organ can be "out of tune". Some an be quite startling if you pick the wrong piece or chord. I played A-D-A (D minor w/o a third, plus octave below), something I expected to be "safe", but Pure Major was strikingly awful! Switching to Pure Minor was entirely consonant, albeit a bit thin w/o the 3rd, as one might expect.
It really makes one appreciate Equal Temprament, for all its evenly-distributed faults!
Aside from being a near-perfect sonic platform for exploring tempraments, it remains one of my favorite organ patches for solo playing around with what I missed growing up with Hammond organs a half-century ago. To thnk what organ builders went through to explore temperament and timbre 250 years ago, at my finger tips, or even in my pocket...
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