<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 11/2/01 6:34:57 PM Central Standard Time,
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<BR>From: dm.porritt@verizon.net (David M. Porritt)
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> It was just this last week that a faculty member of Julliard
<BR>looked at me
<BR>>and said, "But Bach used equal temperament for everything, didn't
<BR>he?"
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<BR>Ed:
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<BR>He/she did teach theater or dance right? This surely wasn't a MUSIC
<BR>faculty member, was it?
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<BR>dave
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<BR>More than likely, it was a piano professor and he "learned" that disinformation from Steinway technicians. It's what they believe and what they tell people, I've heard it from several of them. It seems that if you want to work for the *king* of piano manufacturers, you have to repeat the king's decrees or it's "off with your head!".
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Bill Bremmer RPT
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