This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment There is a local composer/technician who has apparently done extensive = research and found documentation suggesting that ET, contrary to popular = belief, was actually being used pre-1800. He has done a few = presentations on this subject and though I haven't personally heard = them, it certainly adds fuel to the fire, doesn't it. David Love ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: February 21, 2002 7:45 AM Subject: Re: Equal Temperament, Oh really, what else is news? "The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century,... Blah, blah = blah... a universe of greatly expanded possibility, one that allowed = Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and all those who followed to compose = the piano music we listen to today."=20 2001=20 Stuart Isacoff=20 Editor-in-Chief=20 Piano Today=20 (inside cover of a book titled "Temperament - the idea that solved = music's greatest riddle")=20 Let's see one of you guys or gals sell this dude one of them thar = historical temperament tunings! Wow!=20 Terry Farrell Some writing by the ancient Greek, Ptolomy can also be found where he = describes the perfect symmetry of the sun, moon, planets and stars all = revolving around the wonderfully *flat* earth. There was a very long = period in history, far longer than that of the piano during which any = dispute of this very "logical" thinking and "obvious" truth, you would = be imprisoned or executed. It was only in 1994, I think that the = Vatican finally forgave Galileo for his "sin" of believing otherwise.=20 I and others are working on this but have many irons in the fire and = consider this nonsense to be of very low priority. Fortunately, some = people have seen these kinds of disinformation campaigns for what they = are. Check this site out to see what I mean:=20 http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~miker/tuning/tuning.html=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/67/dd/22/9d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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