----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:08 AM Subject: Re: more on this temperament thing > > > David Ilvedson wrote: > > > I still love ET...its cool! > > > > David I. > > > > They are all cool. Heck thats what its all about. We dont have to like > them to tune them. I fail really to see the difference between someone > who wont tune an HT because of personal tastes, and someone who refuses > to tune ET on the same basis. > > I dont see that it is our job to pass subjective personal tastes > judgements on temperaments. We get paid to tune them, as best as is > possible. Why should we impose our personal likes or dislikes on anyone > else ? Because at some point we transend to the level ofartists making an artistic statements. We establish our signature on our work through the ways we tune. Yes some put their signature on HT, some exclusively on ET, and some, obviously, on both . That's an individual statement that I both respect and applaud. But on the pure artistic level, me speaking, there becomes a point when we express our feelings and sentiments about music through our work. It is pure expression and passion. For me tuning has evolved going beyond not merely being a means of having to prostitute myself all over my region just to make a buck. It's my way of musically expressing myself ( musically) through the art of tuning. Tom Servinsky,RPT > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > >
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