Hi again, It seems to me that there ought to be room enough in our profession now days to allow for an aesthetic judgment that admittedly most players apparently can not identify unless it is pointed out to them, but of those that do clearly some feel it profoundly compliments the music, and yet, when tested, subtle enough that it still falls well within the boundaries of what we have defined acceptable for the status quo, ET. If everybody involved with the immediate experience is happy, especially the one paying the bill, I really don't understand the fuss. But historically though, if we acknowledge that indeed most of the best tuners in the late 19th century were trying to do the best ET they knew how, there are lots of explanations for this that have little to do with the music. It provided a professional standard both for small business and on a larger scale, for manufacturers. It was the difficult thing to do that required a "professional", and insured "freedom with all keys". Today we already have our professional standard and that has been met. thanks, Dennis Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100427/21145ebb/attachment.htm>
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