GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT EQUAL TEMPERAMENT

[Alan W Deverell]

A friend, employed in the legal professions, posted this quote from an
authoritative source:

Subject: GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT EQUAL TEMPERAMENT


"Apparently...... there are some knights-errant of equal temperament,
who
fight for a more careful carrying out of its principles.  In May 1932
there appeared at Bow Street Police Court, London, Mr. Lennox Atkins,
F.R.C.O., who, as honorary secretary of the 'Equal Temperament
Committee', applied for a summons against the Associated Board of the
Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, on the ground that they were
not qualified to know whether music was being played in tune or not,
and
that, therefore, their certificates were valueless.  The magistrate
decided , mercifully, that this was not a matter for a criminal
court."


(Oxford Companion to Music).