Reverse Well (was Poetry? Get Real!!!)

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

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Hey Bill,
I like your posts, generally.  I even like your web site.  You are a =
pretty interesting guy.  Gee, I wish I could write like this.
Joy!
Elwood
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:19 AM
  Subject: Reverse Well (was Poetry? Get Real!!!)


  In a message dated 8/9/02 9:25:05 AM Central Daylight Time, =
sckline@attbi.com (Susan Kline) writes:=20



    if people are aiming at Equal, and make a few=20
    little "mistakes", or slight inexactitudes, small enough that=20
    they aren't aware of them, WHY (she asked, incredulously)=20
    would one assume that these errors would line up perfectly,=20
    so that the keys progressed evenly but BACKWARDS? I mean,=20
    isn't it just as likely that they'd be random? They are=20
    small enough that someone earning a living tuning pianos=20
    isn't hearing them, even with whatever checks, etc., they=20
    are using.=20

    Also, it seemed to me, when I first heard about Reverse Well,=20
    that if it happened at all, it would likely happen with=20
    a fourths-and-fifths tuning. But, I feel, most of us use=20
    something more sophisticated these days, so we just don't=20
    chase around the circle of fifths. So why would any small=20
    discrepancies from a scientifically "PERFECT" ET end up=20
    with a backwards slant?=20


  Really, this "Reverse Well" thing is nothing more than the product of =
confused thinking of a chronically disordered mind.  It's called the =
"Don Quixote Syndrome".  When a person like me just can't get his =
temperament equal, he, through daily frustration begins to see the world =
in a backwards slant.  He views everyone as doing what he, himself does, =
thereby shifting within his own pathetic mind, the consequences for his =
own errors and shortcomings to the rest of the world.=20

  To the person who would just pull such a ridiculous idea as "Reverse =
Well" out of thin air, the whole rest of the world is marching out of =
step.  After all, no one else has ever thought of such a thing, no one =
else has ever written such a thing, therefore, quite obviously, it =
doesn't exist.=20

  The plain fact is that ET is the standard of the piano industry and =
has been for well over a century.  There is a painfully obvious reason =
why Historical Temperaments are precisely that, historical.  Sure, not =
everyone gets their temperament completely equal all the time but =
really, we all are human after all.  But these small, occasional errors, =
do they really matter?  Of course not!  Do they ever really create a =
consistent trend?  Never!  Do they have any affect on the music?  None =
whatsoever!=20

  So, you've been right all along Susan.  This List had a nice, peaceful =
dialog going where people talked about little problems that come up now =
and then and shared an occasional joke or anecdote.  Everyone accepted =
the standard way of tuning pianos as the best way that had been proven =
for longer than any of us have lived to be the best and could never be =
improved upon.=20

  Then, I came along, ruined and disrupted everything for no other =
purpose than to call attention to myself, crying out for help but =
refusing to take it when offered. You all tried, in vain, over and over =
to get me to see reality and to have PTG remove me permanently from this =
list and even be kicked out of PTG for causing this awful rift and =
controversy.  But PTG, fearing the threat of a lawsuit or something was =
just too afraid to really try to do anything about it.  Such are the =
shortcomings of living in a pluralist democracy.  You are forced to live =
side by side with some of the kookiest nut cases and can't really do =
anything about it.=20

  So, have no fear or worry, Susan, no one who tunes pianos ever does do =
any such thing as tune a backwards version of a Well Tempered Tuning, =
it's just too crazy of a notion to ever be true.  Some people have even =
gone to the trouble of trying to find out if what I have been spewing =
forth on a daily basis might actually be true.  To date, there has never =
been one shred of evidence to support it!  No one, anywhere has ever =
come across an example of it.=20

  It just has to be that I see and hear things in this backwards way and =
tragically force it upon my customers and have made my colleagues aware =
of it in the most notoriously unethical and uncivil ways, like one of =
these anarchists at a world economic conference: purely destructive, =
offering no redeeming contribution, creating only chaos, dismay and =
utter disgust, negating any positive progress which could have occurred. =


  So, the thing to do whenever you see any reference to or even hint =
about Reverse Well is to just hit that delete key.  Sooner or later, =
people will all come to the determination that everything I have ever =
said is pure Baloney and if I am consistently ignored in my crazed =
rantings, I'll eventually stop posting and hopefully seek treatment for =
my tragic disorder.=20

  Bill Bremmer RPT=20
  Madison, Wisconsin=20
  Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =3D-=20

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