"Over-broade" 5th blah de blah de blah de blah!

Andreas Sparschuh wrote:
(...)
> JSB is the victim.
> Unfortunately JSB isn't any more able to defend his good reputatation
> in tuning against Brad's imputed claims and unsustainbale allegations.
(...)
> simply hear and study that 17-EDO "compositions"
> for better understanding the meaning of
> Brad's all to much over-broade 5ths, adaequate to:
> http://home.ntelos.net/~bpl/afton/lullaby.JPG

Excuse me, but what is your rude and gratuitous jab of character-assassination against me *this* time, in bringing up this piece of music? That I allegedly don't know how to compose, tune for, or play a piece for the enjoyment and soothing of my own young daughter? That my allegedly "all to much over-broade 5th" (merely 704 cents!) is supposedly some stupid flaw that ruins my musicianship and more?

Have you bothered to listen to the recordings of it, demonstrating how the key of B major really sounds in its expressive resources as contrasted against B-flat major?
http://home.ntelos.net/~bpl/hpsi/afton-lullaby-b.mp3
http://home.ntelos.net/~bpl/hpsi/afton-lullaby-bflat.mp3

Can you even *hear* in normal tonal music such as that, where the "over-broade" 5th is? Or are you just objecting on paper (and/or in your imagination) to the idea of having one in there at all?

For what it's worth, the lullaby I composed for her younger sibling is in five flats, to contrast with this one in five sharps. And I play it in the same tuning, usually. I haven't recorded it yet or put it up anywhere, because my wife hasn't finished the words yet. But just like the first one, it's supposed to be a pleasant little lullaby to comfort an upset child into sleep. We hum it all the time and it works. My music has nothing to do with 17-EDO or any other n-EDO; just a bit of diatonic pleasure for young children.

So, in all this: what is your point, if indeed you have one, beyond stalking me with public insults and belittling my work?

Brad Lehman