This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hey Bill, I like your posts, generally. I even like your web site. You are a = pretty interesting guy. Gee, I wish I could write like this. Joy! Elwood ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: Reverse Well (was Poetry? Get Real!!!) In a message dated 8/9/02 9:25:05 AM Central Daylight Time, = sckline@attbi.com (Susan Kline) writes:=20 if people are aiming at Equal, and make a few=20 little "mistakes", or slight inexactitudes, small enough that=20 they aren't aware of them, WHY (she asked, incredulously)=20 would one assume that these errors would line up perfectly,=20 so that the keys progressed evenly but BACKWARDS? I mean,=20 isn't it just as likely that they'd be random? They are=20 small enough that someone earning a living tuning pianos=20 isn't hearing them, even with whatever checks, etc., they=20 are using.=20 Also, it seemed to me, when I first heard about Reverse Well,=20 that if it happened at all, it would likely happen with=20 a fourths-and-fifths tuning. But, I feel, most of us use=20 something more sophisticated these days, so we just don't=20 chase around the circle of fifths. So why would any small=20 discrepancies from a scientifically "PERFECT" ET end up=20 with a backwards slant?=20 Really, this "Reverse Well" thing is nothing more than the product of = confused thinking of a chronically disordered mind. It's called the = "Don Quixote Syndrome". When a person like me just can't get his = temperament equal, he, through daily frustration begins to see the world = in a backwards slant. He views everyone as doing what he, himself does, = thereby shifting within his own pathetic mind, the consequences for his = own errors and shortcomings to the rest of the world.=20 To the person who would just pull such a ridiculous idea as "Reverse = Well" out of thin air, the whole rest of the world is marching out of = step. After all, no one else has ever thought of such a thing, no one = else has ever written such a thing, therefore, quite obviously, it = doesn't exist.=20 The plain fact is that ET is the standard of the piano industry and = has been for well over a century. There is a painfully obvious reason = why Historical Temperaments are precisely that, historical. Sure, not = everyone gets their temperament completely equal all the time but = really, we all are human after all. But these small, occasional errors, = do they really matter? Of course not! Do they ever really create a = consistent trend? Never! Do they have any affect on the music? None = whatsoever!=20 So, you've been right all along Susan. This List had a nice, peaceful = dialog going where people talked about little problems that come up now = and then and shared an occasional joke or anecdote. Everyone accepted = the standard way of tuning pianos as the best way that had been proven = for longer than any of us have lived to be the best and could never be = improved upon.=20 Then, I came along, ruined and disrupted everything for no other = purpose than to call attention to myself, crying out for help but = refusing to take it when offered. You all tried, in vain, over and over = to get me to see reality and to have PTG remove me permanently from this = list and even be kicked out of PTG for causing this awful rift and = controversy. But PTG, fearing the threat of a lawsuit or something was = just too afraid to really try to do anything about it. Such are the = shortcomings of living in a pluralist democracy. You are forced to live = side by side with some of the kookiest nut cases and can't really do = anything about it.=20 So, have no fear or worry, Susan, no one who tunes pianos ever does do = any such thing as tune a backwards version of a Well Tempered Tuning, = it's just too crazy of a notion to ever be true. Some people have even = gone to the trouble of trying to find out if what I have been spewing = forth on a daily basis might actually be true. To date, there has never = been one shred of evidence to support it! No one, anywhere has ever = come across an example of it.=20 It just has to be that I see and hear things in this backwards way and = tragically force it upon my customers and have made my colleagues aware = of it in the most notoriously unethical and uncivil ways, like one of = these anarchists at a world economic conference: purely destructive, = offering no redeeming contribution, creating only chaos, dismay and = utter disgust, negating any positive progress which could have occurred. = So, the thing to do whenever you see any reference to or even hint = about Reverse Well is to just hit that delete key. Sooner or later, = people will all come to the determination that everything I have ever = said is pure Baloney and if I am consistently ignored in my crazed = rantings, I'll eventually stop posting and hopefully seek treatment for = my tragic disorder.=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin=20 Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =3D-=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/00/33/7e/37/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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