[CAUT] professor tuning variables

[Jeff Tanner]

Hi Dave,
As long as the attitude is like the one you demonstrate there should be no problems. And I share your exact philosophy. What seems to me as unwise is the active promotion that ET is evil and never was intended for music and that all these other temperaments are actually more appropriate.  Stuff like that tends to catch on with the type of people who can take up a lot of your time.
Jeff

--- Original Message ----- 
  From: Porritt, David 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 1:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] professor tuning variables


  While I'll offer historical temperaments to anyone who asks I don't try to pretend to be an authority.  I'll ask what temperament they want, and converse with them about the music to be presented, but if this person is a performer with enough knowledge to request an UET, then in our conversation they are the expert and I am the not-totally-ignorant executor of their wish.  While I don't have to be an expert on music history (which clearly I am not) I don't have to play stupid either.  

   

  I don't see where the "trap" comes in and where we are going to doom our successors.

   

  dp

   

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