This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I don't think I would analogize this individual as someone trying to = demonstrate that we didn't go to the moon. He too is a CTE and an = objective and academic sort without an agenda to push. It's unfortunate = that the discussion can't take place without so much vitriol and = politics. David Love ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: February 21, 2002 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Equal Temperament, Oh really, what else is news? In a message dated 2/21/02 10:18:57 AM Central Standard Time, = davidlovepianos@earthlink.net (David Love) writes:=20 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.=20 David Lov e=20 Yes, and there are people who are still trying to prove that we never = went to the moon, either, even though it would have been much more = difficult to fake it.=20 I don't believe this is true because tuning a really and truly Equal = Temperament is as difficult to do by ear as isdrawing a perfectly = straight line free hand without a ruler. It is not impossible but very = few can really do it. Add to that, the information we have now was not = known back then and the instruments they had back then were far more = unstable than today's.=20 Research, research and research, trying to find some thread of "proof" = that somebody tuned in a way that nobody wanted back then all you want, = it just is not true. People will call anything "equal" if they want to = and that's where the real truth of the matter lies. It was called = something it was not. If they were really trying for ET, that's all = they were doing is trying. When everything sounded "kinda sorta pretty = even" (as a retired conductor used to call it), and there were no = obvious "sour" sounds, then it was ET. That's the way my EBVT or Jim = Coleman's WT's sound and they are most decidedly *not* ET.=20 I've also been researching for years too. I don't bring this up very = often because every time I do, I get accused of "unethical advertising". = But as a CTE for over 10 years now, I have seen and heard everything, = both in and out of the exam room. Very few people are able to score a = 100 in the temperament and midrange. Even if they do, the tolerances = can still allow for audible inequality. Calculated elctronic programs = are only as good as the accuracy of programming, the scale design of the = piano and the aural correction of the two afterwards are. But it's ET = if you say it is or you mean it to be, so it seems.=20 As far as I'm concerned, ET has always been and will always be a = theoretical idea which is not worth pursuing.=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/16/14/6a/ce/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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