<HTML>In a message dated 12/9/01 8:04:23 PM Central Standard Time, A440A@AOL.COM writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">So when David decries "imposing a personal taste in tuning that is not appropriate to the piece",  I must respond that I see the use of 20th century tuning for 18th and 19th century music as a far more dramatic example of imposing personal tastes, and  that any almost any form of WT would provide less of an imposition.    </BLOCKQUOTE> This is the best commentary I've seen in a long time.  The resistance to what should be obvious, however is frustrating, to say the least.  I've been searching the Web for sites on Temperament.  As I've always witnessed and suspected, the people who only want ET are unshakable in their beliefs.  They'll invent almost *anything* to support their beliefs and just shrug off any historical documentation as *meaningless*. Owen Jorgensen wrote an excellent article which appeared in this month's Journal.  Not to let it go unchallenged, however, the resident Southern Wisconsin *Equaholic*, Editor (read *supreme commander and dictator*) of the Journal (and incidentally a charter member of the Madison Chapter who changed his allegiance to Milwaukee over the issue), Bob Hohf managed to get his cheap shots in on the editorial page. According to him, anything but ET is simply wrong.  A piano in a "historical tuning" as he puts it, is tuned incorrectly.  In the same opinion, he seems to think that temperament and even tone don't really matter, except if the temperament has deliberately been a historical one.  What he doesn't know is that the joke is really on him.  As most people who believe in this hard line ET only thinking, what he really tunes habitually is Reverse Well. If I am to believe what seems to be the majority opinion, you are wrong, Ed.  Beethoven thought and wrote in ET and it's high time we end this ridiculous and meaningless folly of a discussion.  As the Steinway people always say, "No artist *ever* asked for it" (and they'll make damn sure none ever will!). 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> </HTML>