<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <STRONG><EM> Thanks for the affirmation Ed</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Dale Erwin</EM></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dale writes: <BR><<  One frustration/risk has been that when we speak  enthusiastically of our <BR>own pianos or speak of a subjective  tonal  experiences we run the risk of <BR>appearing to be some kind of prima donnas or some  one selling the emperors <BR>new <BR>clothes so we/many have been careful as to how much  we can say. Truth is we <BR>are very excited about the sound we are hearing  & Love hearing piano music <BR>played on instruments  that a pianist has tonal Carte Blanche. >><BR><BR>   Substitute "harmonic" for "tonal"  and this is exactly, to a tee, dead <BR>nut, bulls-eye how I feel about the temperaments......!  <BR><BR>Ed Foote RPT <BR>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html<BR>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>