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RE: Sint Janskerk (Gouda, Netherlands)
Beautiful array of stained glass windows! I like how they are numbered on plaques, beneath, for reference in a booklet or pamphlet!
Not being familiar with "meantone tuning," I launched myself down quite the rabbit hole a while ago, readng about pitches and tuning and such! My brain is fried now... 😂
Yes, they are numbered for the guidebook but I didn't have time to grab one.
Tuning of the musical scale is a pretty interesting puzzle. Now, in modern times we just divide everything equally and so everything pretty much sounds the same. This goes also for all of classical music, so most musicians that you talk to will not even realise anything different!
However, in my specialisation of music, we do use many different temperament systems. Valotti or Werckmeister are the most common ones that I work with, meantone is way too early for Bach and would have sounded pretty disgusting (very out of tune!).
But congrats! You know more than most musicians after diving through the rabbit hole!