Coleman 11

[David M. Porritt]

Ed:

I put a Coleman 11 on the studio piano of our most senior accompanist.  I left her a note so she'll know why it sounds as it does.  I'm anxious for feedback on the results.  She only accompanies singers.

dave

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On 4/14/00 at 9:13 AM A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

>Greetings, 
>Inre the Temperament Revival Dog and Pony show going to the Lone Star State, 
>Dave writes:
>>
>>Thanks for the invitation.  That should be a great day.  I'll check my
>>calendar and see if I can do it. 
>
>Please do.  Siege has been laid on Texas and we need all the help we can get. 
>(:)}}
>     I recently received a rejection from one school there, even though a 
>sponsor had already offered to underwrite the program!  Their reason was that 
>they were "not quite prepared for the aesthetic implications in our 
>proposal".   Whoooeeee doggie!  I know fear when I smell it.........  I would 
>have written them a letter explaining that if they wait until they are "quite 
>prepared", they will always be followers,  but I may need that bridge later 
>for kindling, so don't want to burn it just yet.
>      Schools are critical for change, I find students to be far more 
>adventurous than their professors, but they are all important to the 
>avante-garde, and the use of temperaments is definitely avante-garde at the 
>moment.  It will not always be so, however.     It is only a matter of time 
>before the schools, factories, and stores begin to see the worth in a variety 
>of temperaments, perhaps only when the true cost of mono-temperament is made 
>clear, perhaps when they find a way to use it as a selling point.  Widespread 
>conversion is a question of esthetics vs. Money, so a combination of the two 
>is probably the way to make the most progress.  
>     There will be schools that seek the avante-garde, (go Avery!), and there 
>will be others that run and hide from it.   The former are to be pursued, 
>wooed, encouraged and helped,  the latter are to be pitied, but don't slam 
>the door on them, they will want to play too, once they see it is safe and 
>everybody else is having more fun than they are.  
>Regards,. 
>Ed Foote
>(do they really have rattlesnake problems on campus down there????)




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275