<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">"The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century,... Blah, blah blah... a universe of greatly expanded possibility, one that allowed Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and all those who followed to compose the piano music we listen to today." 2001 Stuart Isacoff Editor-in-Chief Piano Today (inside cover of a book titled "Temperament - the idea that solved music's greatest riddle") Let's see one of you guys or gals sell this dude one of them thar historical temperament tunings! Wow! Terry Farrell</BLOCKQUOTE> Some writing by the ancient Greek, Ptolomy can also be found where he describes the perfect symmetry of the sun, moon, planets and stars all revolving around the wonderfully *flat* earth.  There was a very long period in history, far longer than that of the piano during which any dispute of this very "logical" thinking and "obvious" truth, you would be imprisoned or executed.  It was only in 1994, I think that the Vatican finally forgave Galileo for his "sin" of believing otherwise. I and others are working on this but have many irons in the fire and consider this nonsense to be of very low priority.  Fortunately, some people have seen these kinds of disinformation campaigns for what they are.  Check this site out to see what I mean:   http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~miker/tuning/tuning.html 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>