P12 in Tunelab Pro

[David Andersen]

on 5/31/04 11:02 PM, Richard Brekne at Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no wrote:

> And, the fact that for well over     25 years
> Sandersen and Coleman have been trying very hard to figure out what
> Virgil is talking about, and find nothing brings into question the whole
> concept. 

Ric, Ric.....there have been collegial and intensely respectful discoveries
back and forth in the relationship between Virgil Smith and Jim Coleman....I
think both recognize the other as a wizard of great power; to make the
statement that Coleman and Sanderson have found nothing in Virgil's work is
simplistic at best.

The battle, or balance,  between theory and practice, between technical
knowledge and intuitive wisdom, between proveable, linear science and the
reality of the acoustic grand piano, will always be an interesting arena.
Academicians and scientific pragmatists will usually demean/dismiss  the
intuitive empiricists out of hand, either subtly or overtly, and vice-versa:
a shame, because both can certainly learn from the other.

Best, David A.