Left/Right

Tunees,

Thanks to all who have weighed in on both a call to reason and civility AND to a balance, or a remembrance or understanding of balance, between left and right brain activities. I whole-heartedly agree that, by it's nature, the bulk of messages on this list will always contain more of the nuts-and-bolts of tuning issues, as opposed to directly speaking to music (witness experiments with isolated 'chords'). This is normal and I cut slack accordingly.

OTOH, hopefully, all will remember what brought them to this place on the path. Just one reminder, from Francis May's "Under The Tuscan Sun":

"One spring when I studied cooking with Simone Beck at her house in Provence, she said some things I never forgot. Another student, a caterer and cooking teacher, kept asking Simca for the technique for everything. She had a notebook and furiously wrote down every word Simca said. The other four of us were mainly interested in eating what we'd prepared. When she asked one time too many, Simca said crisply, 'There *is* no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?'"

I say cook.

Cheers,
Jon
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