Diatribe, was: EBVT Imbalances Disproven

[Farrell]

What is this continual diatribe? Why don't you worry more about the lies of politicians who make this world miserable for mankind? Geeezzzz, get a life! Is your world really that small?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <SidewaysWell1713@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:27 AM
Subject: EBVT Imbalances Disproven


> Here again is the big lie, Ed Foote wrote, knowing that it was not true and 
> for one purpose alone, to make himself the HT guru and to discredit the way 
> I've been successfully tuning pianos for 10 years:
> 
> 
> > This 
> > doesn't change the fact that the ebvt creates a more tempered E-G# of 
> > 17+cents than the F#-A# of 13.7.  It is folly to think that going up two 
> > semitones will somehow make the F# third seem to beat faster.  It doesn't, 
> > and the harmonic balance is poor because of it.  It is this break with 
> > tradition, (no other temperament I know of has this amount of imbalance in 
> > the progression of its thirds), that renders the ebvt an atypical 
> > arrangement 
> > and makes any claim of its author to its "authenticity" a pipedream.  Scale 
> > placement cannot save this poor harmonic balance. 
> 
> In the past few days, I took Direct Interval measurements of several ordinary 
> pianos that I tuned.  Ed Foote is on record as calling all of these "JUNK".  
> I'd like to see him go into the elegant, well appointed homes in the upper 
> middle class neighborhoods I did and say what he did right here on Pianotech. 
>  These are all JUNK pianos, so of course the FAC program won't work.  Yet, 
> this is the only information he offers, numbers copied out of a book.  Just 
> look at the numbers, don't read anything else, just the numbers.  So, what do 
> all of you out there who only tune JUNK do to compensate for a program Ed 
> Foote concedes will not work?
> 
> If you were to believe Ed Foote, two of the pianos I tuned in an upscale 
> section of town at the elementary school where I have been the technician now 
> for 20 years, were JUNK.  I have now for 10 years victimized the children of 
> that school by providing "poor harmonic balance" on their JUNK.  I'd like to 
> put one of Ed's tune-by-numbers attempts up to some careful aural and 
> electronic scrutiny.  I'm sure I'd find a few embarrassing stains in his 
> dirty laundry.
> 
> ( n/r = not recorded)
> 
> Piano                   B2-D#3  Db3-F3  E3-G#3  F#3-A#3  Ab3-C4
> 
> Walter Studio          n/r           n/r       15.8        18.8       n/r__   
> Weber Grand          17.0         18.2     16.6        17.6       n/r 
> Acrosonic               16.1         18.7      14.3       18.6      14.8
> Yamaha P22           18.1         18.9      15.3       18.7      18.0
> Everett Studio          16.9         17.3      15.8       16.7      16.3 
> Knabe Console         16.6         16.6     16.0        14.8     14.8
> Kawai Console         16.9         15.7      14.5        16.2     15.1
> 
> These figures contradict Ed Foote's lies and attempts at defamation when he 
> said that the EBVT is "full of imbalances".  There aren't any imbalances at 
> all.  It would be easy however to make slight errors and create them. Some of 
> these errors include:
> 
> Initial F3-A3 set faster than 6 beats per second.
> Making one of the pure intervals a little tempered of tempered the wrong way.
> Stretching the octave a little too much.
> 
> Ed Foote says he tried to tune the EBVT both aurally and electronically.  If 
> he got the results he claims he got trying to tune the EBVT, how accurate can 
> his tunings be where he just copied numbers out of books?  Or did he just 
> plain LIE about it?  I don't believe or trust a thing Ed Foote says and never 
> will.
> 
> 
> "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
> <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> 
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