source file: m1359.txt Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:02:48 EST Subject: Temperament Festival From: A440A Ok, now, everybody remain calm...........(:)}}}}} << The only tuning class they're touting in advance is something called 'Temperament Festival' by someone named Skip Becker. If it is just a chance to rejoice at one's ability to produce identical 12-tet every time, any other tuners who are likely to be there and I should get together and picket it...>> All the classes are published well in advance, but this Temperament Festival is anything but ET!!!!! Skip is going to have a variety of temperaments,(there are also others in there tuning their own, etc....), and there is going to be a crowd of technicians that will be there to judge, listen, allow how this and that, and just in general, get their temperament awareness raised. This is good, for all of us. The assault on ET, that McClaren so pointedly gave voice to on this forum in years past, is now joined by a number of piano technicians. There is good solid controversy on the Pianotech list right now, concerning ET vs WT vs MT, (nobody championing Pythagorean or Just, at the moment). We have the staunch adherents of ET, cursed as they are with the status quo, but the temperament crusade is continuing to advance. I don't resent or dislike ET (it's been worth a great deal of money to me all these years), but I, like a growing number of tuners, have come to dislike the hegemony of it. This is the target for all of us that are into alternative tunings of any sort. Getting the public to take that first step off of the familiar is the most important thing to get done first, and professional tuners are in a good position to do it, or at least help. Anne Beetem, Susan Halligan, and I have all released CD's that feature tunings other than ET. There is more to follow, I am sure. I have been listening to H'sticks latest, as well as Kirnberger and his buddies. I like them all Regards, Ed Foote Precision Piano Works Nashville, Tn.