Hi Bill, Wish your temperatment were as *mild* as the one you propose to inflict without knowledge on your clients! I consider most of the ppl you have trashed and otherwise insulted as my friends. You were asked by the ppl managing the list to *drop* your original ham fisted attempts at forcing your own particular brand of morality on the list. Too bad you didn't stay GONE! At 12:24 AM 2/1/98 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 98-01-31 16:22:47 EST, you write: > Susan {Kline}, Conrad, John Page, Gina Carter >You took great pains to save every one of my posts and dig through them, copying >everything you could find that you thought was some kind of attack. Like many ppl on the list Susan used Eudora so all messages are saved. Bill you are either *digitally* challenged in the extreme or a fool or both. According >to you, I attacked Jim Coleman, John Travis, William Braide White, etc. This >is not true of course. It was my personal interpretation you did attack all these ppl and more! > When I spoke of substandard conditions in the preparation of a piano that >I knew George Winston to use, and that this was the reason he had this list of >specifications that people on the List were delighting in ridiculing, I was >the one who was ridiculing someone else. Yet when I requested Mr. Winstons preparation list, you true to form refused the request as and I quote "I am not sure how you would use it, and I don't want ppl rediculing Mr. Winston" > When I made the remark about Jeffry Siegle, I did likewise and I'll only >reiterate, not elaborate: In the venue where he performs, he has played on a >piano for years that never has been tuned in ET, it isn't even close to ET but >he accepts it as such and makes ridiculing, derrogatory remarks about the >HT's. Is this a sneak attack on both Mr. Siegle and the person who looks after this instrument? Are you suggesting the other person does as you do and *skulks* about tuning HT's on pianos without the owners knowledge? Or worse yet that the *other* tuner is incompetant to tune ET? Or are you saying that ET while theortically possible just doesn't happen in the real world? > I went off the List for about two months because as I saw it, everything >I said could and would be used against me and I had so much work to do, such a >heavy load of piano and literary work that I had to turn my attention to it, >not the low life that I was reading about on this List. Bill you have a very poor memory. You openly challenged anyone to post quotes from your epistles that were derogatory. You said if anyone could *prove* that there were *nasty comments* you would leave. Susan replied with a few (by no means all!) examples and you left! So far as I can tell nearly everyone on the list breathed a sigh of relief to see you GONE! I see however that you decided to give *us* another chance. How noble of you to come back and *immediately* begin fighting with as many ppl as possible. >I immediately saw someone trashing the reputation >of Baldwin Spinets. I wrote a post to try to set him straight on this. We >should not ridicule the instruments upon which we make our living. We should >learn how to service them properly instead. Bill I do believe that *even* in the U.S.A. there is a right to freedom of speech. You are again trying to *lift* the list of out of it's *moral* decay! Lift somewhere else please! >If what I say about HT's irritates you, then I suggest you do the same, just >delete any post you see by me on the subject or any subject. It is obvious >that you have already made up your mind on the HT debate and there is no >information I have, and I have lots of it, that would be in your slightest >interest. It would only irritate you to see me "wasting bandwidth" with it. > >I'm not interested in making any personal attacks on anyone but I certainly >will respond to any that are made on me and on anyone else and I will >especially be critical of anyone who berates or ridicules any brand or kind of >piano. Go ahead! You are destroying any credibility you may have had. I for one was *very* interested in HT. Now, I only have a bad taste in my mouth! >Historical Temperaments. I tune them exclusively. I will not entertain any >more suggestions of "unethical" conduct however. This is quite ridiculous if >you ask me and I've tried to explain why it is ridiculous. So next time you have an oil change for your car and they use a different brand of oil without telling you, you will be immensely happy. I simply do not >"go around" tuning in ways that would shock and confuse an artist, performer >or regular customer without them knowing what I can do and with their full >consent and approval. I they *don't* know how can they approve? Unethical Bill. Sorry about that. (see below your *very own words* condemn you.) Just because I have said that I don't always disclose >the fact when I tune a very mild Victorian Temperament, not always, I am the >target of accusations of fraud, unethical and "possibly illegal" conduct (or >behavior, as Gina put it). > Bill Bremmer RPT > Madison, Wisconsin > > Regards, Don
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