Explanation of Reverse Well

[Ron Nossaman]

Bill,
Thank you. That's what I wanted, and no, you haven't explained this to the
list before. You are describing an incompetently tuned ET, in forty thousand
words or less, which you chose to use as an example of what aural tuners
produce, as ammunition to condemn ET altogether. Interesting circular
reasoning. It's nicely self contained. Does this then mean that ETDs are
purchased primarily because the tuner is incapable of tuning an acceptable
temperament without one? That would seem to be the implication here, and I
expect we'll hear from an ETD user or two about that. Did the purchase of
your ETD coincide - roughly - with your own revelation that you had been
tuning Reverse Well? If you had attained RPT status prior to the purchase of
your first ETD, that isn't likely. Just curious.

By my count, you seem to be making a very big issue out of what is little
more than inadequate performance among a segment of the tuning population.
These same people would be incompetent at tuning any historical temperament
you might ask of them, except that it might not be as obvious given the wide
range of acceptable permutations. It's not the temperaments that you are
griping about at all, it's the incompetent tuners. It's about time we got
that straight. Why not, then, expend a little of that energy toward trying
to upgrade the basic tuning skills of the general technical populous instead
of claiming universal persecution by a group that has been far more patient
with you than even minimal civility should require. Any dog on the planet
would have gotten kicked by now for much less. Once we get the entire tuning
community up to speed and dispense with this Reverse Well crap, then we can
get on with the higher education in the historical temperaments.

So why *is* "Reverse" capitalized?

 Ron