Re: "well-tempered"?

[Joshua Huppert <jbhuppert...>]

>Who you calling fretboy?  I'm a tsimblist, not a guitar player!

My apologies, stick-boy.

> But as a lowly fiddle player, you got it easy, because you do it
> automatically by ear.

Maybe I do, but that kind of talk is inappropriate here. There may be ladies
lurking.

>  Only problem is when some fretboy or piano
> player comes along and wrecks the intonation.

Truth is, I can do a pretty fair job of wrecking it all by myself.

I think any fretless string player who is more honest than conceited will
admit that a well-tuned piano is better in tune than we will ever be.
On second thought, I may have just defined an empty set, as the math-boys
would say.

Joshua "He sure do pull some bow" Huppert

----- Original Message -----
From: "r l reid" <ro (at) panix(dot)com>; "r l reid" <ro (at) rreid(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: "well-tempered"?


> Joshua Huppert wrote:
> >
> > This is some pretty high-level stuff you fret-boys get into .
> > As a lowly fiddle player, I don't worry about just intonation. I would
be
> > happy to be just in tune.
>
> Who you calling fretboy?  I'm a tsimblist, not a guitar player!
>
> But as a lowly fiddle player, you got it easy, because you do it
> automatically by ear.  Only problem is when some fretboy or piano
> player comes along and wrecks the intonation.
>

----- Original Message -----
From: "r l reid" <ro (at) panix(dot)com>; "r l reid" <ro (at) rreid(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: "well-tempered"?


> Joshua Huppert wrote:
> >
> > This is some pretty high-level stuff you fret-boys get into .
> > As a lowly fiddle player, I don't worry about just intonation. I would
be
> > happy to be just in tune.
>
> Who you calling fretboy?  I'm a tsimblist, not a guitar player!
>
> But as a lowly fiddle player, you got it easy, because you do it
> automatically by ear.  Only problem is when some fretboy or piano
> player comes along and wrecks the intonation.
>
>
>

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