[pianotech] [CAUT] More Bohemia

[Avery Todd]

Ric, for whatever it's worth, I TOTALLY agree with you! His "attitude" makes
me not even want to explore it. Let alone buy his "thing"!

Avery Todd
Houston, TX

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no>wrote:

> Bernard.... you do indeed make it difficult to defer politely and at the
> same time appropriately to you.
> I said nothing about you making your material known to the <<piano
> community>>.  I said <<us>> -- as in here on the PTG lists. Please take my
> comments in their correct context. Indeed your article was published in the
> 5 languages the Euro magazine always translates too... but that part of the
> <<piano community>> resides in Europe, and the Euro was not read in the
> States at the time by more then a handful if by any at all.... The stateside
> part of the <<piano community>> had no idea who you were until you showed up
> on Pianotech about 6 years ago. I would be surprised if the rest of the
> <<piano community>> in the world knew who any of us are.  As far as to what
> degree Gary Schulze's article points to a Perfect 12ths approach.... well he
> says different... I most certainly read it different... and I'll let you
> argue the matter with him if you like.
>
> I personally don't give a hoot who thought of what first.... all I am
> interested in is the subject matter itself... and last time I checked...
> there is no law about discussing such subject matter.  Indeed... strikes me
> that the more people talk about and listen to P-12ths material in an open
> and friendly environment the greater chance you will have of selling your
> own software.  I'm not selling anything myself... just offering an
> implementation using software equipped to render this tuning.
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
>   "My approach was not made known 6 years ago to the piano community,
>   but  published already 21 years ago in a euro piano article from
>   1988, as  Stopper temperament, where i published this method along
>   with the  usage of a twelfth spanner tool and the discovery of the
>   natural form  of the fifth circle which is in fact a nineteen
>   octaves and twelve  twelfths circle.
>
>   This article has been published in 5 languages . (German, english,
> italian, french and danish.)
>
>   Gary Schulze´s article is not an introduction of a general P12
>   tuning  approach."
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