<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: The True Properties of EBVT</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>From Jorgensen, page 295: "Charles Earl Stanhope's treatise, "Principles of the Science of = Tuning Instruments with Fixed Tones," created much interest and controv= ersy. Immediately, negative reviews appeared. Some of these were caused by S= tanhope's statement that half of the musicians preferred the idea of equal t= emperament while the other half were diametrically opposed to it. This divid= ed the musicians into camps, some of whom were offended by Stanhope's extrem= e criticism of equal temperament and also by his implication that everyone w= ho had heard the Stanhope temperament was converted to it." It's a steady state universe. </BLOCKQUOTE> || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| <BLOCKQUOTE>From: SidewaysWell1713@AOL.COM Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:39:54 EDT To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: The True Properties of EBVT </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>Ed Foote lied and tried to escalate a fight on t= his list as he has done many times in the past by saying: <BLOCKQUOTE>This doesn't change the fact that the ebvt creates a more tempered E-G# of 17+cents than the F#-A# of 13.7.  It is folly to think that going up t= wo semitones will somehow make the F# third seem to beat faster.  It does= n't, </BLOCKQUOTE>and the harmonic balance is poor because= of it. These are the correct figures which Ed knows are correct and do not create = an imbalance but instead, Equal Beating, which is allowed under Werkmeister'= s rules: E3           17.5  &= nbsp;           &nbsp= ; F#3         16.0 I tune by ear, so rather than depending on a program, I listen to what I am= doing.  The very last thing I would ever do is create a temperament wh= ich has the kind of imbalances which Ed maliciously used to try to discredit= what I've been doing for 10 years. Many of you may not understand what this argument is about but that doesn't= really matter.  What does matter is Ed Foote's history of making publi= c, defamatory statements.   Therefore, I have adopted a new screen name which I will use to remind ever= yone of this.  I'll keep using this screen name until Ed Foote admits t= hat the EBVT does indeed meet the Rules of Well Tempered Tuning. The EBVT has never substantially changed since it was designed 10 years ago= but Ed Foote has been trying to discredit and supress it all along.  A= nyone can design their own temperament who wants to, it's not at all difficu= lt.  I had designed several before hitting on the EBVT idea which produ= ced the most generally appealing sound of any idea I had known of before or = since. I'm sticking to what I know how to do and will not be intimidated by someon= e who can only copy numbers out of a book.  There are many people who h= ave learned to tune the EBVT and there is growing interest in it.  That= will continue as will this reminder that Ed Foote once again went way too f= ar.              Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =- <http://www.billb= remmer.com/>   </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>