<HTML>In a message dated 11/5/02 11:11:23 PM Central Standard Time, davidlovepianos@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">they would allow someone to contest the charge if, say, they decided they weren't happy with our choice of temperament (levity BB, levity), </BLOCKQUOTE> I've accepted them for years, usually a few transactions per month.  To date, after 10 years of tuning mostly the EBVT and a total of 13 years of never once tuning ET, I have never had a single customer ask me to tune the piano !!!!!!BACK!!!!!! to ET.  In the earlier years before I came up with the EBVT idea, I did have a few people who asked for something milder at the next tuning.  This is one of the factors that lead to the development of the EBVT which has never once received a complaint. This, of course, in spite of what Ed Foote had to say about it.  I you were to believe him, the entire audience of technicians at both the 1998 Temperament Festival and the repeat demonstration in Chicago in September 1999 were *duped* into thinking that in Ed's own words, a temperament with "very poor harmonic balance" and octaves that "don't make sense at all" sounded acceptable enough to prevail over Virgil Smith's ET. I regularly do concert tunings at places where I am the chosen technician because of the positive responses from the artists.  I'm tuning 6 pianos today, one of them for a public performance and traveling to a town 50 miles away to tune 3 of them for a group of clients who want only what I have to offer. I still use the same programs I developed as long as 9 years ago, the programs Ed Foote ridiculed and the very same, unchanged programs which were demonstrated at those PTG functions.  I have now put on my website my irrevocable answer to Ed Foote for all who visit my website to read. I've seen quite a few good and informative posts by Ed Foote recently.  It shows how well and positively he can write when he is not consumed by jealousy over the obvious mediocrity of his tuning skills when compared to mine.  Ed Foote wants to be a leader in his field but it is not going to happen by simply ridiculing what I do and copying numbers out of books. "Sideways Well":  the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the day he knowingly published false data for the EBVT on Pianotech. 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>