Temperament Revival

Greetings all,
Well, the Old Time Temperament Revival is still underway, and I thought I
would mention the latest developments.
Isacoff's book, "Temperament- solving the riddle" garnered a lot of
glowing reviews, and then the backlash started. I got a call from a Mr.
Ferrell, an editor at the New York Times Book Review, who stated that the
Jamie James review of the book had "generated a lot of heat" for the
reviewer. He also wanted copies of our two well-tempered CD's,("Beethoven In
The Temperaments" and "6 Degrees of Tonality".
Soon after, there was a letter to the editor published, last Sunday in
the Book Review section that mentioned 6 Degrees by name, and we have seen a
lot of movement on the Amazon.com sales ranking. Last month, we were at the
233,000 th position, and now I see that we have moved all the way to 14,775!
I think this is good progress, but haven't any idea of how many copies that
represents. Anyhow, the use of the older tunings is beginning to spread and
we are all happy for that.
I have a fellow technician that has put up my thirds charts, so if anybody
is interested in how I see these things, the link is at
http://homepage.mac.com/kentswafford/FileSharing1.html

Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
Nashville, Tn.

In-Reply-To: <40.1786dd54.2974d395@aol.com>
Ed Foote wrote:

> Soon after, there was a letter to the editor published, last Sunday in
> the Book Review section that mentioned 6 Degrees by name, and we have
> seen a lot of movement on the Amazon.com sales ranking. Last month, we
> were at the 233,000 th position, and now I see that we have moved all
> the way to 14,775! I think this is good progress, but haven't any idea
> of how many copies that represents. Anyhow, the use of the older

Oh, it's on Amazon.com, is it? I was going to ask how to get it. I might
add myself to the statistics. Assuming it's your Beethoven in the
Temperaments or somesuch.

Graham

Hi Ed,

I was just gifted by the book "Temperament" and concur. This was more of a
political effort more than anything else. His facts on Werckmeister and
Kirnberger were incredibly wrong and biased.

On the bright side, our work is more important than ever.

Best, Johnny Reinhard

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> In-Reply-To: <40.1786dd54.2974d395@a...>
> Ed Foote wrote:
>
> > Soon after, there was a letter to the editor published, last
Sunday in
> > the Book Review section that mentioned 6 Degrees by name, and we
have
> > seen a lot of movement on the Amazon.com sales ranking. Last
month, we
> > were at the 233,000 th position, and now I see that we have
moved all
> > the way to 14,775! I think this is good progress, but haven't
any idea
> > of how many copies that represents. Anyhow, the use of the
older
>
> Oh, it's on Amazon.com, is it? I was going to ask how to get it.
I might
> add myself to the statistics. Assuming it's your Beethoven in the
> Temperaments or somesuch.
>
>
> Graham

I bought it from Amazon.com as well. It's pretty "light reading" so
was hoping to read it over the holidays, but read an "upbeat" book on
terrorism instead...

JP