Piano Technicians Guild A440 Resolution-APOLOGY

[Gregory Torres]

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Dear list:

In my defense of Mr. Bremmers most recent post where he is personally
attacking me and quoting stuff completely out of context I have decided
to re-post my last letter to him so you can all see for yourself what I
REALLY said. He has twisted (and he is) everything.He has even
embellished my post-things I never said he claims I have, etc.  I know
there has been much wasted bandwith on this subject so if you choose to
delete I will not be offended in any way. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Greg Torres

Gregory Torres wrote:

>  Bill:
>
> The truth is that you make many assumptions about me and other techs
> on this list based on your own perception of reality. You do not know
> me from Adam and because I have an opinion that is different than
> yours you think I must be an idiot or not knowledgeable in any way
> regarding the subject of HT's simply because I don't care to explore
> it with the zeal in which you do.
> I have studied music seriously for over 33 years, am a classically
> trained pianist, oboeist and play other instruments as well. I also
> have perfect pitch. (you might want to find out the true definition of
> that phrase as it means different things to different people but it is
> just pitch memory) Which means I had to work probably twice as hard as
> the next guy regarding learning how to set a basic temperament. You
> see I had difficulty accepting that you can't tune all of the 12 tones
> in our basic western scale perfectly to each other in ANY temperament.
> It is a compromise WHICHEVER way you choose to tune.
> I am also a professional musician and have studied jazz and theory and
> much more. You just don't know what others know simply because they
> may disagree with you. Keith McGavern said it well on one of his
> posts. There are MANY others on this list who feel the same way but
> you just can't see it because you are blinded by your arrogance and
> ignorance. There are so many ways to tune any piano. Ht, Et, Wt,
> Meantone, Werckmeister, Horowitz, Rubenstein, Billy Joel, Elton
> John-get my drift?. You tune what the customer wants-not what YOU want
> or THINKsomeone wants simply because they may have never heard of HT's
> or other alternate tunings of the past. You don't FORCE the customer
> to have you tune it the way you THINK it should be tuned. If you have
> someone that knows exactly what they want and can deliver-FINE!! I can
> bet you if you have been tuning as long as I have (probably longer)
> you know that most of the people you tune for (or perhaps tuned for
> since you probably don't tune for them anymore)  couldn't even tell
> when a unison was slightly out. They only called because it has been
> over a year or more or the piano teacher that little Johnny or Jane
> studies with insisted that they have it tuned.
>
> I agree with you that HT's are an important thing to know about,
> explore, etc, but my point was and still is...ET is what most people
> want and expect unless they ask for something else specifically. Give
> the customer what they want. Don't slam other techs who either don't
> know or care about HT's. And don't assume other techs are ignorant or
> stupid simply because they don't share the same enthusiasm you do.
>
> Greg Torres
>
> Billbrpt@aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> What is the truth, Greg?
>>
>> Bill
>
>



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