This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Bill, I feel that using anything other than ETon a piano without the customer = being informed would be arbitrary as what 99.9% either do not know = there is a difference or can not fully judge and compair the result. I = have been led to feel this way from my over 20 years of tuning for = customers who were very satisfied with my work when my ears were telling = me the tunings were just so so. To my ears the piano, guitar, orchestra bells (all fixed instruments) = are extremely out of tune. Give me the good olde Barber shop quartet and my ears are satisfied. Oh yes , once heard a junior college symphonic band play a piece that = used chords built on fourths like C F Bb Eb Ab=20 The resulting major second relationships were beatless. Their = performance was stunning. I wish the name of the piece would come to = mind but alas my forgetter is getting too good. Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: Re: OFF LIST!!!Re: Songwriters, Temperaments (*was: = neurology) In a message dated 4/26/02 7:59:25 AM Central Daylight Time, = jkanter@rollingball.com (Jason Kanter) writes:=20 > People like me who use unequal temperaments are often accused of = imposing our=20 > own taste on the public ... How is Susan's explanation of why she = only=20 > likes and uses ET any different?=20 Susan doesn't seem angry, and she's not giving a tirade. Big = difference.=20 Right. My post was an angry, violent tirade and I go around abusing = everybody and imposing my own ridiculous, convoluted, twisted ideas on = everybody. It drives everyone away and is a disgrace to the entire = profession. I should be kicked off this list and out of PTG, be sued = for libel, slander and violating common law practice. Once that is = done, the world will be able to return to peaceful bliss and harmony, of = which ET stands as a shining example and symbol.=20 Now that that's out of the way, what about the real question: isn't = the arbitrary use of ET in fact imposing a specific set a values upon = the public without their informed consent?=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin=20 Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =3D-=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1b/d8/8a/6d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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