<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Someone recently wrote:   <blockquote>" I don't believe this is true because tuning a really and truly Equal  Temperament is as difficult to do by ear as isdrawing a perfectly straight  line free hand without a ruler.  It is not impossible but very few can really  do it.  Add to that, the information we have now was not known back then and  the instruments they had back then were far more unstable than today's."</blockquote> I have actually had the chance to start checking out the validity of this statement, and find it to be resoundingly false. True, ET is a tough cookie...but way more then a "very few" can tune it.  It may be true perhaps that there are some common errors and tendancies for less experienced or for those who dont really persue the beast...  yet my preliminary findings in looking informally into the matter point quite clearly in the direction that todays tuners are quite capable of tuning what can only be termed as a true ET. Might be fun to see just how many of us really pull off a good ET, and try and find out what it took for us to learn in the end how to do it.   -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>