I have noticed some of this tone also. There seems to be one person that brings up the issue of Reverse Well often. Is he really a person? Or is someone using an alias and just trying to put one over on the rest of us? Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristinn Leifsson" <istuner@islandia.is> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 6:28 PM Subject: Re: TSHs > Yeah, just think how funny these arguments would look to an outsider! > > "No it isnīt!" > "Yes it is!" > "No it isnīt!" > "Yes it is!" > "No it isnīt!" > "Yes it is!" > "No it ISNīT!" > "Yes it IS!" > "Prove it then!" > "No, I wonīt!" > > We see this arguing, and read it over and over again. Yet, and Iīm not > ashamed to say, I do not understand Reverse Well any better than when I > first subscribed almost two years ago. > > > <gulp> > > Kristinn > > At 20:52 24.10.2000 +0200, you wrote: > >Grin... you guys crack me up with all this back and forth stuff.. > > > >"David M. Porritt" wrote: > >> Conrad: You just don't get it do you! You can not denigrate anything > >> that has 88 keys. There are no piano shaped objects (PSOs). They're > >> all just fine instruments waiting for the master's touch. You CAN, > >> however, bash TSHs (Tuner shaped humans). Since 90% of tuners don't > >> know what in the world they are doing and put some perverse temperament > >> on pianos, these people should be exposed, shamed and run out of > >> business. So in the future, save your harshest comments for the more > >> than 90% who don't know how to set an equal temperament, yet > >> miraculously do a well-temperament backwards. Not just random small > >> errors, mind you, but a nicely crafted well temperament but backward. > >> dave PS - Can I borrow one of your heavy duty flame suits? > >> > >>---------- > >>David M. Porritt<mailto:dporritt@swbell.net>dporritt@swbell.netMeadows > >>School of the ArtsSouthern Methodist UniversityDallas, TX 75275 > >> > >>---------- > >-- > >Richard Brekne > >RPT, N.P.T.F. > >Bergen, Norway > > > >
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