<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-885= 9-1"><html> <head> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="IncrediMail 1.0">  </head> <BODY background="" bgColor=#ffffff style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px= 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 1px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" scroll=yes ORGY= POS="0" X-FVER="2.0"> <TABLE border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 id=INCREDIMAINTABLE w= idth="95%"> <TR> <TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION width="100%" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 7px; PA= DDING-LEFT: 7px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" > <DIV>Mr. Foote, I guess I didn't realize that you wouldn't be prese= nting this year.  I know that your class opened my eyes to new possibilities, and I have presented two different temperments to my= home chapter for comparison to ET in a meeting held in our store last year.  I was surprised that 12 out of approx. 30 techs present= took the handout you gave me permission to use (a couple of others alrea= dy had taken your class, and had it already).  So, about half of the = class had experimented with your precepts, or would.</DIV> <DIV>    I think that this indicated that a lot of t= echs are willing to try new things (or old things brought back to life),=   and I would like to say for the record, that a lot of us truly appr= eciate what you and others have tried to bring forward, as different alter= natives to the normal.</DIV> <DIV>    I look forward to taking Mr. Lamoreaux's cl= ass, and will bet that it will be well attended!</DIV> <DIV>Clark Sprague, RPT</DIV> <DIV>Detroit/Windsor Chapter </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage><I>-------Original Message-------<= /I></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=receivestrings> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Thursd= ay, June 20, 2002 01:53:48 PM</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re:= Don Quixote and Opening Ceremony</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV>Greetings, <BR>Billbrpt writes:<BR><BR>>The iro= n fisted insistence on ET only serves to hold the profession back.<BR>>But I know what the real thinking is here: the Institu= te Committee and<BR>> others running PTG do not want its members to= get the idea that other tuning<BR>> systems are a viable alternative= for one and only one reason. <BR><BR>>If the idea<BR>> gets to be= to well known, someone will eventually ask *them* to do something<BR>&= gt; different and that, they are afraid to do. It will mean that they <BR>themselves<BR>> will have to learn something new and a diffe= rent way of thinking about<BR>>tuning.<BR><BR>Having been involved in= PTG temperament presentations for the last 3 <BR>years, I can state wit= h certainty that there is no resistance to the subject <BR>of tempera= ments, just to those that offer condemnation of everything but <BR>their o= wn egocentric viewpoint. If a class proves attractive and useful,(as <BR>measured by the class evaluation sheets), the presenter is usua= lly asked <BR>back. <BR>The IC makes the effort every year to present n= on-ET temperaments, it is <BR>a popular class. Dave Lamoreaux will be pre= senting a class this year on <BR>choosing them. It should be a valuable add= ition to any technician that has <BR>an interest in the new. Wish I could= be there. <BR>Regards, <BR>Ed Foote RPT <BR><BR>.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD align=middle id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom></TD> <TD align=middle id=INCREDIANIM vAlign=bottom></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE><SPAN id=IncrediStamp><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-se= rif" size=2>____________________________________________________<BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><A href="http://www.incredimail.com/redir.asp?ad_id=309&lang=9"><I= MG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:5C55D121-7FA4-11D6-BCAF-0050046DC6F7" align=basel= ine border=0></A>  <I>IncrediMail</I> - <B>Email has finally evolved</= B> - </FONT><A href="http://www.incredimail.com/redir.asp?ad_id=309&la= ng=9"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><B><U>Click Here</U></B></FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </BODY> </html>