Hi Bill, Is there no one you will not "bad mouth"? You do HT's a disservice every time you make a comment like this. At 10:15 AM 04/27/2002 EDT, you wrote: >In 1990 at a Regional Seminar in Quebec City, Marshall Hawkins asked Ted >Sambell to speak to me about these *ideas* I had about tuning. Instead of >going on the bus tour, I stayed at the hotel and tuned a piano in the Vallotti >temperament. Everyone asked why I would do that instead of taking the >liesure/pleasure trip. Well, for me, I already knew Quebec and the exploring >I was doing in that small room was infinitely more interesting. >Ted condemned my tuning and pointed his finger at me saying, "Young man, you'd >better stop doing this or you're going to get in a great deal of trouble". He >was right. <snip> >I've never tuned a piano in ET for anything since well before the "lesson" >from Ted nor after. I don't usually say anything about it either because I >know that most people have profound misconceptions and misunderstandings about >the concept which run very deep and which cannot be overcome in any one >instance, no matter what is said or not said. > Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =- Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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