Billbrpt, Comments interspersed... At 19:23 10/12/2000 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 10/12/00 6:05:48 PM Central Daylight Time, JIMRPT@AOL.COM > ><< <<tuned to standard pitch using the temperament considered unethical by >some>> > > This ain't "sarcasm, it is a blatant untruth, worthy to have been spoken by > Al Gore along with his inventing the internet. > Jim Bryant (FL) > >> > >Honestly, Jim, >I wasn't thinking about you when I wrote that, I was thinking about all of >the *other* people who have called my tunings "unethical". Just as I also have been using the internet since before Al Gore invented it, I was in on the ground floor of an ethics controversy on this list which you misremember slightly. As one of those people whom you call "other", I know _I_ never called your temperaments unethical. The ethical problem I and the "others" have is with _you_ and your proud revelation that you put a non-standard temperament (Yes, Bill. ET is the generally accepted standard.) on pianos as a matter of course without prior consultation with, or notification to, the customer or end user - such as a recitalist at, say, a convention/institute. > I've always been >an unethical tuner. Hmmmmmmm... Anyway... I recently put a well temperament on a #1 size Yamaha grand, after trying several other ways to make the customer happy. My mentioning this is just to show that I DO use HTs, and instruments DO sound differently with them. Before I changed the temperament, however, I _THOROUGHLY_ discussed what I was planning, why, and what I felt it would do for her enjoyment of the instrument. BTW, I also said that I would return it to ET after a week's "trial run" if she wasn't happy - she called back the next day saying that she loved it. She knew it would be different, and she knew in what way. Was I unethical in using an HT? I don't think so. Please, Bill, in the future when referring to something as being unethical, refer to the correct thing? Conrad Hoffsommer - Luther College, Decorah, IA Eschew Obfuscation.
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