ET just as easy as HT? (was aural - sounds nice?)

[JIMRPT@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 10/06/2000 10:04:57 AM, you wrote:

<<"What evidence to you have to support your argument that ET is no more 
difficult in terms of + or - cent errors than any other temperament?">>

Bill;
 I never said this, these are your words not mine. 

What I did say was:
 <<"A well crafted temperament of any type does not have to be "perfect" in 
order to be a very very good temperament. This applies to all temperaments 
and each is as hard to get perfect, vis a vis "intentions", when the same 
parameters of +/- of "intentions" are applied to each.">>

 Now I would assume that an individual with an open mind could translate this 
to mean that....... "intentions" unfulfilled always lead to something other 
than "intended".................
    A .1 cent error in ET makes that temperament something other than ET, 
although the overall temperament still may be considered by thinking 
individuals to be ET. 
    A .1 cent error in your EBVT makes that temperament something other than 
EB, and if not EB can it be truly EBVT? Thinking individuals would say so. 
The mere fact that a typical HT is more forgiving of errors than is ET does 
not mitigate the fact of an error being present as compared to "intentions" 
for that temperament.

 There is no argument here that HTs, in a general sense, are more forgiving 
of one or more errors in their construction than is ET. The argument, if 
there is one, is that an error is an error is an error is an error no matter 
what the "intentions" are.

 The original comment was that a Piano tuned in ET was 'not as intended an 
hour later' (sic).  The same comment could be made of any HT that had been 
applied to that piano in those conditions and tuned by the same tuner.
Jim Bryant (FL)