<HTML> <TT></TT> <TT></TT> <TT>Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote:</TT> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE><TT>Whew!  Kind of interesting but I'm afraid that this is the kind of "way out</TT> <TT>there" thinking that scares people away.  It is not what I am interested in</TT> <TT>or what I do and not what other people like Skip Becker, Dave Lamoreux, Karen</TT> <TT>Hudson-Brown and Ed Foote do either.</TT><TT></TT> <TT>We may argue and disagree among ourselves about certain things but we all</TT> <TT>have one goal in common: a better, more musical sounding piano, not a weird,</TT> <TT>far out sounding one.  We all want what ET is supposed to provide:  a piano</TT> <TT>that will express virtually any music that the general public might care to</TT> <TT>play, beautifully and correctly.  We don't want it to offend anyone.  We</TT> <TT>don't want it to sound "sour".  We want it to to sound "in tune", titillate</TT> <TT>the ear and make the music all the more enjoyable.</TT></BLOCKQUOTE> <TT>I would say that the 1/3 comma meantone, nearly perfectly posing as 19tet, is much more "far out" sounding than 22tet and it has been historically favored.</TT><TT></TT> <TT>Clark Panaccione</TT></HTML>