On the Stanhope Temperament, 145 



Scale, followed by the decimal fraction 33333 ad mfliiitwn. 

 And this alteration he considers as an improvement ! 



He misconceives (for I do not impute to him an inten- 

 tion wilfully to misrepresent) what I have said respecting 

 " the value" of the C Wolf, and " the vahie" of the Quint 

 Wolf, in my Treatise. Anv person, however, who reads 

 my work with co)nmon attention, will clearly perceive that 

 those deviations from perfect intervals are concisely, as 

 well as accuratelv and conveniently, expressed by me by 

 means of the difference between the lengths of certain wires 

 respectively. And he will not, as a man of science, venture 

 to assert, that those respective lengths are not accurately 

 calculated, or that the difference between them is not accu- 

 rately stated. And it is by means of the relative and accu- 

 rate lengths of wires, which are of the same quality and 

 thickness, and which have precisely the same degree of 

 tension, that I have, throughout my whole work, endea- 

 voured to explain, to an enlightened and intelligent public, 

 those interesting truths, which I wished to make them clearly 

 understand, upon a subject which the ablest men belonging 

 to the musical profession justlv consider " as the very basis 

 and foundation of musical science." For, when a man talks 

 of a Q«/«f, or of any other musical interval, in any key 

 whatsoever, he must have in view some given mode of tem- 

 perament ; or else he does not conceive with clearness, nor 

 express himself with precision. 



Mr. pAKJiy, in noticing what I have said in my pamphlet 



respecting the JVvlves, jcxpresses hilnself thus : " His 



Lordship speaks of four Wolves in the Major Thirds, 

 whereas" (says Mr. Farey) " there is but one such in- 

 terval, which for distinction I have called the Tierce IVolf, 

 and shown its value in No. 14 of Table A; where it must 

 be evident tiiat this interval, VIII — 3 III, owing to the 

 equality of all the octaves, whether taken above C, G, D, 

 A, K, or any other of the 12 Notes, is always of the sarrjs 

 value, and is no more the C Wolf than that of anv other 

 letter in the Gamut : what could have induced his Lordship 

 to limit his inquiries respeciirvg the Major Thirds in \\\^ 

 Essay, to the fivk columns, is to me a mystery." 



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