Greetings,
Billbrpt writes:
>The iron fisted insistence on ET only serves to hold the profession back.
>But I know what the real thinking is here: the Institute Committee and
> others running PTG do not want its members to get the idea that other tuning
> systems are a viable alternative for one and only one reason.
>If the idea
> gets to be to well known, someone will eventually ask *them* to do something
> different and that, they are afraid to do. It will mean that they
themselves
> will have to learn something new and a different way of thinking about
>tuning.
Having been involved in PTG temperament presentations for the last 3
years, I can state with certainty that there is no resistance to the subject
of temperaments, just to those that offer condemnation of everything but
their own egocentric viewpoint. If a class proves attractive and useful,(as
measured by the class evaluation sheets), the presenter is usually asked
back.
The IC makes the effort every year to present non-ET temperaments, it is
a popular class. Dave Lamoreaux will be presenting a class this year on
choosing them. It should be a valuable addition to any technician that has
an interest in the new. Wish I could be there.
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
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