Temperamental debacle

[Tom Cole]

Billbrpt@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 98-01-31 02:51:35 EST, you write:
> 
> << What do you think?
> 
>  That there was something very wrong about how you were treated way back
>  when and that you would like to be loved and accepted. Bill, I hope that
>  you can find the healing that you seek.
> 
>  Best regards,
>  Tom >>
> 
>     This is merely a flippant rekark that does not address the issue.  I've
> heard it called a "flame", a "waste of bandwidth" or even "libel" on this
> list.  It regresses to what Les Smith hoped would be over by now, a debate
> about the rightness or wrongness of HT's and ET's.
> 
>     Sorry Tom, I don't do what I do or say what I say to just to attract
> attention.  If you want to participate in this discussion and debate about
> HT's, don't talk about an individual's personalities, talk about the effects
> that temperaments have on music.
> 
> Bill Bremmer RPT
> Madison, Wisconsin

You asked me what I thought and so I told you. My answer was not
flippant but quite serious. If you read it with the mindset, "How does
this respond to my point about how wrong ET is, etc.", then I would
agree: it doesn't begin to compute. If you had turned off your amazing
mind for just a few moments and listened with your heart, then we might
have communicated. But, unfortunately, that did not happen.

I would like to learn more about HTs and how to apply them to different
situations. But, if you tell me that ET is wrong, you've lost me, Mr.
Bill. You have discredited yourself by flaming most of the list. Are you
telling me that I've wasted 26 years of my life? That I commit a sin
every time I tune a piano "quasi"-equally? I will not let you pass
judgment on my craft so arrogantly.

I would like to comply with your wishes to not talk about individual's
personalities, inasmuch as it is completely off topic and all the things
you listed above. I commit this crime, much as a cop goes 100mph to
catch an 80mph speeder, to call attention to the violence you do to
other individuals on this list. It is appalling how often flames leap
out of your words, only to then hear your innocent denials when someone
objects. All you have earned yourself, on my computer, is a stroke of
the delete key.

If historical temperaments have value, and I don't doubt that they do,
then teach us their value and leave out the right and wrong part. I make
plenty of judgments on my own without your help.

We return, now, to the pianotech list, already in progress. 
-- 
Thomas A. Cole RPT
Santa Cruz, CA