Don Quixote and Opening Ceremony

[David Ilvedson]

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Ed, well put...

but it will NOT get through...;-]

David I.



On 20 Jun 2002 at 14:16, Clark Sprague wrote:

> 
> Mr. Foote, I guess I didn't realize that you wouldn't be presenting
> this year. I know that your class opened my eyes to new possibilities,
> and I have presented two different temperments to my home chapter for
> comparison to ET in a meeting held in our store last year. I was
> surprised that 12 out of approx. 30 techs present took the handout you
> gave me permission to use (a couple of others already had taken your
> class, and had it already). So, about half of the class had
> experimented with your precepts, or would. 
>  I think that this indicated that a lot of techs are willing to try
>  new 
> things (or old things brought back to life), and I would like to say
> for the record, that a lot of us truly appreciate what you and others
> have tried to bring forward, as different alternatives to the normal. 
>  I look forward to taking Mr. Lamoreaux's class, and will bet that it
> will be well attended! Clark Sprague, RPT Detroit/Windsor Chapter 
> 
> -------Original Message------- 
> 
> From: pianotech@ptg.org 
> Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 01:53:48 PM 
> To: pianotech@ptg.org 
> Subject: Re: Don Quixote and Opening Ceremony 
> 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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David Ilvedson, RPT


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