Drat... it was done

I was looking over the 72-tET website and came upon the following
quotation by Stravinsky. Essentially he says what I was saying in
my little lecture at the Moscow Conservatory, except he seems to be
saying it better and much earlier.... oh well.

Here it is, in an interview with Robert Craft:

Robert Craft: Is any musical element still susceptible to
radical exploitation and development?

Igor Stravinsky: Yes: pitch. I even risk a prediction that
pitch will comprise the main difference between the
"music of the future" and our music, and I consider that
the most important aspect of electronic music is the fact
that it can manufacture pitch. Our mid-twentieth- century
situation, in regard to pitch, might perhaps be compared
to that of the mid-sixteenth century, when, after Willaert
and other had proved the necessity of equal
temperament, the great pitch experiments
began--Zarlino's quarter-tone instrument, Vincentino's
thirty-nine-tones-to-the-octave archicembalo, and others.
These instruments failed, of course, and the
well-tempered clavier was established (though at least
three hundred years before Bach), but our ears are more
ready for such experiments now--mine are, at any rate. I
had been watching the Kuramatengu play in Osaka one
afternoon recently and had become accustomed to the
Noh flute. Later, in a restaurant, I suddenly heard an
ordinary flute playing ordinary (well-tempered) music. I
was shocked, music apart--I think I could keep the music
apart anyway--by the expressive poverty of the tuning.
[Stravinsky, Igor and Robert Craft, Memories and
Commentaries, Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY
1960, pp115- 116]