<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>   "Kevin E. Ramsey RPT" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>    Look guy, I've been hesitating to write you, but I re-read this post and had to reply. You have a habit of being obnoxious in your entries to the list. Look, I'm an RPT, and I scored 98% on the tuning exam. I know how to tune, I do concert tunings every day, I know what a piano is supposed to sound like. Maybe not by your definition, but by the rest of the world's. Get off you high horse, bud.</blockquote> Sounds to me like you are putting yourself in exactly the same boat you accuse Bill of floating around in. To use your own expression...grin... Look bud, the piano is not supposed to sound any other way then how the tuner set out to make it sound. And the rest of the world is fully capable of speaking for itself thankyou. As for your judgement as to what it is saying... grin.. I think you better get your ears checked. Or you better start playing closer attention to the world as it is rather then the one you choose to see. Fact is that we are simply talking about different combinations of sounds that any particular musician can have at their disposal should they wish. And the desire for more then what ET can offer is indeed growing. You dont want to be able to provide them with these is ok... that you wish to criticize others for defending the use of HT is...well... not ok. <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Yes, I've done historical tunings, and they are different, but when I tune for a concert, not knowing what keys they will be played in, I tune ET. Invariably, someone will come out, and play in G flat, and it sounds beautiful. Also, I use the SAT 11. I use it as a tool,, not trusting what it's trying to give me, but using it to more accurately give me what I'm after. When I give an institute lecture on how I do this, I'll personally invite you, and you can take all the cheap shots that you like. I'll have answers for them all.</blockquote> Hmm... why doesnt that suprise me.. grin <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  Kevin E. Ramsey, R.P.T. Phoenix, Arizona ramsey@extremezone.com</blockquote> Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway  </html>