WTs

[atonal@planet.eon.net]

> From:          Billbrpt@aol.com
> Date:          Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:56:59 EST
> To:            pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject:       Re: WTs
> Reply-to:      pianotech@ptg.org

> 
> In a message dated 98-02-11 02:24:19 EST, you write:
> 
> << Greg Torres
>  
>  Don wrote:
>  
>  
>  > Hi folks,
>  >
>  > Following this thread with great interest.
>  >
>  > Points for you to ponder:
>  >
>  > 1. no one knows what these temperaments *really* sounded like.
>  >
>  > 2. no one knows if the directions (which were some what *general*) are
> correct
>  >
>  > 3. Seems that tuning HT's comes down to a matter of the *taste* of the
> tuner
>  > doing the work. The example I use with my clients about *quality* is this.
> I
>  > don't like cherry pie. That does NOT mean that cherry pie is NOT good, it
>  > just means I personally don't like it. HT's are by nature total subjective.
>  > >>
> Two people who HATE HT's, and anyone who tunes them, never tune them
> themselves yet talk as if they know something about them and their effects on
> music.
> 
> Both you boys have much to learn before you become the dictators of what is
> right and wrong.
> 
> Bill
> 
>
As a totally non-constructive comment:

Please do tell, o lord and master of HT, how have we ignorant 
strayed?

Get a grip, pinhead.


Rob Kiddell, 
Registered Piano Technician, PTG
atonal@planet.eon.net