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[Billbrpt@aol.com]

Dear List,

    So sorry to disappoint you, but I'll just have to unsubscribe again for a
while.  I'm just far too busy doing all these illegal, immoral tunings that I
will have no time in the next week to read and respond to all of the wonderful
insights of this List.

   I'll also be out of town from the 19-27, meeting with Walt Disney
productions on a major project.  Yes, sorry to say, they are interested in
what I do and write and we'll be screwing around with yet another tale of
classic literature and writing inappropriate music for it.  Don't you just
HATE that?  I'll be hating it too, all the way to the bank!  (To paraphrase
Liberace, who always kept an Acrosonic in his dressing room).

    Just remember that ET and ET only is the only acceptable, normal, healthy
and legal way to tune a piano.  It doesn't matter what kind of music it is or
what kind of piano.  ET is what you do and what the customer expects.
Remember this too if you go on one of those trips to Cuba.  A440 with not even
1¢ deviation will be expected.  If you do not do the commie law (whoops, I
mean "common law") tuning, you'll have to answer to Fidel himself for it.
You'll have a lot of explaining to do if your 3rds aren't perfectly even and
your 5ths don't all sound like they're virtually pure.  After all, every one
knows Cuban music, like all music, REQUIRES absolute and unequivocal ET, no
tolerances!  When you are asked to tune a "poorly scaled" spinet, remember to
publicly condemn the manufacturer and make the customer feel like a fool for
having purchased it.

    This, my friends, is the way of the List.

    Your faithful and observant friend,
     Bill