<HTML>Dear List, Thanks to Paul Bailey RPT for his post.  I wish he'd come back as a regular.   He has the most interesting contemporarily conceived Meantone Temperament.   It was also one of the temperaments featured at the Temperament Festival at the Convention in Providence, 1998. The post features writing by Dr. Herbert Anton Kellner from Germany who is one, if not the earliest of 20th Century tuners to reject Equal Temperament (ET).  He critiqued and reviewed Professor Owen Jorgensen's first publication, many years ago, "Tuning the Historical Temperaments (HT) by Ear".  Dr. Kellner invented his own tempering system which he felt most closely represented the kind of Well-Tempered Tuning system that Bach must have used.  Skip Becker RPT presented this temperament at the Temperament Festival in Providence. Dr. Kellner's website is fascinating.  Here is the URL: http://ha.kellner.bei.t-online.de/ He is still quite active, so if any of you personally have some strong feelings about temperament usage, he would like to hear from you.  His e-mail address is: ha.kellner@t-online.de I'm flattered to say that Dr. Kellner found out about my work by himself, I never approached him.  He is very interested in my Equal Beating Victorian Temperament (EBVT).  According to him, the 6 beats per second foundation that I lay in my temperament is a pulse that is very agreeable to the ear, neither too slow nor fast. I have invited Dr. Kellner to come to the Bernstein show I am doing August 3-11 to see and hear how well the EBVT works with both Bernstein and the Kawai temperament programmable Digital Electronic Keyboards.  I hope he will accept the invitation and I also think he would be a great speaker and lecturer to have at the 2002 Convention in Chicago.  He saw the future many, many years ago. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>