Temperament, A Tooner responds

Don Rose drpt@sk.sympatico.ca
Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:19:18 -0600


Hi Kevin,

I agree the answers were not given. I try to be as un *diggy* as possible.
I believe Bill is very knowledgeable. If my post came thru that way I
apologize to the entire list.

At 07:16 PM 12/16/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Bill, Don, List,
>
>Appears to me like both questions were skirted.
>
>Were they not reasonable enough, or were they assumed a dig and you two
>just have it in for one another, or Š?
>
>Concerning Don's first question, I have always assumed Bill B. created the
>expression 'Reverse Well' by reading your posts in the past, but maybe you
>picked it up from somewhere else, and I overlooked that fact.  Yes / No?
>
>As for Don's second question, I certainly don't dispute your abilities and
>knowledge, Bill, but if what you have just recently said, "... most people
>as well never recognize consciously that the piano is tuned differently
>from the usual Š because I have remained within the bounds of error that
>most people make when trying to tune ET Š", then why all the hoopla that
>has been in your posts on how much better EBVT is over Equal Temperament
>and the one you call Reverse Well?
>
>Kind of mystified by these recent comments,
>
>Keith McGavern
>Registered Piano Technician
>Oklahoma Chapter 731
>Piano Technicians Guild
>USA
>
>>>...Don Rose...
>>>This kind of error has been named, "Reverse Well" (RW).
>>>Who named it "reverse well"? Or is this a term you created?
>>
>>I think Einstein made it up one day when he tried to tune his own piano
>>with a pair of vice grips and a drum key.
>>
>>>In other words most people never hear the difference between your EBVT, ET
>>>*OR* "reverse well"?
>>
>>O hell no, people always stop listening to their pianos once they get that
>>first free 15 minute tuning.
>>
>>Bill Bremmer RPT...
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>, Billbrpt@AOL.COM, drpt@sk.sympatico.ca
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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