Kanter's new graph on Website

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To all interested,

I put Jason Kanter's new graph on my website to replace the old one which was 
quite good but factually inaccurate.  Unfortunately, there is still an 
inaccurate statement right at the top of it but as before, I'll let it stand 
until Jason has the chance to change it.

Jorgensen made no changes to the EBVT, I did.  The notes which were changed 
were Bb3 and Eb4, not G# as stated in the graph.  What took place is this, 
nothing more nor less:  The EBVT aural instructions as they were, presented a 
very neat, easy to follow sequence where there was only one specification 
given, the initial 6 beats per second.  Every subsequent interval was either 
tuned pure of exactly the same as another.  This follows the classic and 
highly refined form of temperament construction known as the "Equal Beating 
Temperaments".

Unfortunately, this created a *theoretical* imbalance, that is, a problem on 
paper but not necessarily in practice.  I still have and still use custom 
programs with the old instructions where Bb3-F4 is pure and in which there is 
no improper imbalance.  Some of these programs are as old as 9 years, have 
never been changed, are still used and will continue to be used because there 
is nothing incorrect about them, in spite of the fact that in theory, there 
should be.  I still construct some of my temperaments aurally, using the old 
instructions.  The new ones, although theoretically correct, don't always 
work. This is due to the effects of inharmonicity and scaling irregularities. 
 

In order to make the idea work out theoretically, I had to think of which 
changes I could make and offered those suggestions to Jorgensen who tried 
them all.  The changes I made were among those I have always used to make an 
aural temperament work out. One of the suggestions was to temper the G#3-C#4 
4th but that proved to be unnecessary, theoretically but it is still one of 
the options I use.  In the end, I only had to temper the Bb3-F4 5th by 1 beat 
per second.  This is not an "improvement".  When that word is used in 
temperament construction, it means that an interval is either made pure or 
less tempered than before.

Therefore, the "improvement" which was made was to now make the Ab3-Eb4 5th 
pure, when it previously had been tempered.  The revelation by Kent Swafford 
that the B3-E4 4th is pure had always been the case, I just had not realized 
it and I really do appreciate his insight.

The slight changes which were made in the aural instructions were made by me 
with no suggestions from anyone else on what needed to be done to make the 
temperament theoretically correct.  Owen Jorgensen was, in the end, the only 
person who was able to tell me which of the many possibilities would work.

Jason Kanter, Ron Koval and Kent Swafford were all helpful by their analyses 
and in the ways they pointed out that there was a theoretical problem.  Ed 
Foote, on the other hand, saw information he knew did not really reflect the 
EBVT accurately and used it to try to undermine the entire idea and destroy 
its credibility.  Even after being told that this information itself was 
under review and due to be corrected, he persisted with his credibility 
assaults.

In his most recent post, Ed Foote has announced that he will do the same 
thing again as soon as he finds the opportunity.  This has been his pattern 
of behavior for as long as I have had any contact with him.

I'll remove this screen name, the spiteful name Ed Foote called the EBVT, and 
the entire signature when Ed Foote admits that the things he has written were 
done so purely out of spite, vindictiveness and in an effort to destroy 
credibility.  That kind of behavior violates the PTG Code of Ethics.  As long 
as Ed Foote continues his campaign of hatred and spite, I will continue to 
show it for what it is.  Whatever he can come up with, I can match and and 
exceed.  It is up to Ed Foote to stop, when he does, I won't have any reason 
to expose his behavior for what it is.  Ed Foote should give up on trying to 
attack the credibility of the EBVT now that it has been shown and proven to 
be a valid idea.

"Sideways Well":  the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the day he 
knowingly published false data for the EBVT on Pianotech. 

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin
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