Conrad, I don't have time to carry on this ridiculous argument right now and others are complaining. But I will do what you suggested and I will document some of what I have said that I have long observed when I get the chance in the near future. I'll explain later how to look at the figures and see the Reverse Well in them. Someone else suggested that what I am saying is just too far fetched to be true but I can assure you that it is a reality. Yes, many people's attempts at ET are passible and are accepted as such but some, and sometimes these are highly respected, professional, even concert tuner types, come up with blatently backwards tunings routinely. If the public can accept those tunings and even state a *preference* for them, they can accept just about anything. I didn't pull this Reverse Well concept out of thin air, I hear it nearly every day and am even surprised when I don't find it, it is so common. I won't hear it today or tomorrow because today, I have all regular customers and tomorrow, I have to tune 10 pianos at a school where I've had the account for 21 years, 11 of them tuning non-ET, 9 of them EBVT. No one has complained yet, they just keep calling back. Bye the way, when I said "the first page, I meant Section 1, not the preface. So far, I disagree with Owen on only one point I can think of, and that is the statement about today's tuners being able to do such mathematically perfect tunings. I really think he said that just to avoid crucifixion. A few of the very best, yes, the majority, sorry but it just is not so. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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