<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Friends:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    2500 years of = temperament history should be enough to teach us that differences of opinion about temperaments cannot be settled by argument.  Not to mention 6 years = of history on the Pianotech List.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    As a refugee from = Pianotech, I would request that we just report our temperament experiments, read = about others temperament experiments with interest, without feeling forced to = agree, or feeling we must force others to conform to our opinions, or = ridiculing those we don't agree with.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    More bluntly, I am = saying let us not act like a bunch of tuners fighting over temperaments.  There = is a place for it, called Pianotech.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    In my humble opinion.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Thank you, and = forgive me if I offend you.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>        = Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>