Mystery (was Re: %#@$pers)

[Billbrpt@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/16/00 9:38:03 AM Central Daylight Time, 
RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes:

<< Isn't this the same reason you have for your repeated posts about the
 inadequacies you see in others' tunings, and your proposed improvements on
 the status quo? Why is the fact that others aren't interested in your ideas
 such a problem for you when your disinterest in their ideas doesn't
 particularly bother them? 
 
 It's a mystery. >>

It's no mystery to me, Ron.  You failed to see my point, as expected.  And as 
I said, it's the HT's.  As soon as you see my name, it doesn't matter what I 
write, it will not be read nor understood for what it really says, it will 
only be viewed with a deeply imbedded resistance and rejection of the idea 
that a proper piano tuning could be *unequal*. 

The very idea that so many tunings that were meant to be ET are not in fact 
but a backwards version of an HT is all the more disquieting.  Reverse Well 
does not exist because I am the only one who has identified it.  Therefore, 
no matter what I write about anything or how I write it, it is viewed with 
contempt because I have challenged the very way that you and most other 
people have always perceived the art and practice of tuning.  The easiest way 
to reject my ideas is to delete them or to take cheap shots at them.  It's me 
against all the rest.  If you choose to see it that way, then it is that way.

I was interested in what you had to say about the substandard rebuilding job 
but I found the way you presented it to be unreadable, so I deleted it.  It's 
just as I said, it is OK for you to rant and rave and spout off, but I am not 
allowed to do that.  I've seen other List members write far more outrageous 
things than I ever have and have it accepted as normal discourse.  To me, 
it's all very amusing because I get lots of private mail from people who are 
very interested in what I do and have to say but who are much too afraid to 
ever ask about it on the List because they already know what the reaction 
will be.

So, if you don't mind too much, I'll talk about what interests me the way I 
want to talk about it and you talk about what interests or concerns you, the 
way you want to talk about it.  If I lose interest in what you have to say 
simply because of the way you have presented it, then you have done the very 
same thing that you accuse me of.  It's always been that way, not just 
between you and me but with any of the others who have complained.  

As I said, it's the HT's.  If that were not my primary area of interest, if I 
ranted and raved about PSO's, "tooners", "birdcages are for the birds" and 
about a few "kooks" who want to do funny tunings, "don't they *know* there is 
only *one* way to tune a piano?!", I'd be cool and just one of the guys, just 
like you.  But I am not.  So, there.

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin