whats the “squiggle” squabble about?
> Subject: Re: squiggles on the web > > Can someone explain this whole matter of the squiggles? It seems to > have been assumed everyone has intimate knowledge of this debate. Dishing the hot potato onto three big plates: The piece of arguable evidence most hotly in debate is this one, Bach’s autograph title page for his own copy of WTC (book 1): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/larips/wtc-1722-from-1911-grove.gif A – There are some who believe that this page’s drawings and layout are inadmissible evidence in historiography, for one or more of the following reasons: (1) it is probably meaningless about matters of tuning, always and forever; (2) it is too vague to be taken as reliable/credible evidence *today* of any such thing (no matter what it may have meant to Bach–or not–or the people around him), because it offers too many plausible interpretations; (3) it is not sufficiently precedented to be taken as relevant to tuning (such folks need a firm second piece of evidence demonst
