>>Are people who are tone deaf and color blind to be >>type cast as "naysayers" also? > >No, but they are presumably afraid to hear tone and see color, and are >limiting their development as hearers and seers by their fear. > >Ron N ><end> > >Well, dangitall! I had really hoped to avoid the name-calling this time >around. What name calling? This is just repeating how the most vocal of the AT folks have characterized those not interested in tuning ATs. The incident that started the "last time around" was me complaining to Jon about that very characterization - something which was, incidentally, immediately buried in the resulting snowstorm and never addressed. >Kindof a catch-22 here; don't want to sell alternate temperaments 'till >folks ask for them / folks won't ask for them, 'cause they don't know >about them...... No, and that's the point. Some of us don't care to sell ATs at all, regardless of who does or doesn't ask for them. It isn't a matter of fear, loathing, name calling, personality conflicts, or the ignorant and tragic self-limiting of our potential as technicians. It isn't a conviction that ET is a superior temperament either, much less the ONLY one. It is instead, a relative disinterest - possibly a profound disinterest in ATs. Some folks, possibly some of those "gearheads" that are spoken of in different contexts from time to time, have different priorities than ATs, and aren't all that enthusiastic about being looked down at and pitied as a consequence. Ron N
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