source file: mills2.txt Subject: Re: Temperaments/tyros/neophytes From: smith@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu (Ronald Bruce Smith) Joe Downing wrote: >I reiterate: Tempering is only necessary for those instruments which are >tuned prior to playing (keyboards,fretted instruments.) > Thank you for stating this so eloquently. It has been long overdue. Ronald Bruce Smith CNMAT 1750 Arch Street Berkeley, CA 94709 smith@cnmat.berkeley.edu tel: (510)-643-9990 ext. 310 fax: (510) 642-7918 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:33 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00669; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:33:20 +0200 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:33:20 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00667 Received: (qmail 6199 invoked from network); 20 Jun 1997 20:00:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jun 1997 20:00:25 -0000 Message-Id: <199706201557_MC2-18E7-E579@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu