Re: [Harp-L] intonation and such

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard  - 

You've been elected master of the universe? Congratulations on an
honour richly deserved. 

However, I must protest that you do me too much honour to impute the
power of election to me; I must modestly decline to claim any credit. I
believe in the power of individual merit and thought, therefore such an
achievement must redound entirely to your own credit and efforts.

My simple message runs toward the power of the individual and not that
of great powers (begging your indulgence in saying so). Let me
summarize it once again for any who may have missed it:

- Think for yourself. 

- Do your own explorations. 

- Find what works for you. 

- Accept only the limitations of your own experience and then only
provisionally, and recognize that they apply only to you. 

- Do not accept others trying to apply their limitations to everyone
else, and do not try to impose your limits on others.

Given these simple precepts, surely you cannot think that I would
accept or promote anyone as master of the universe (again begging your
indulgence).

While my most recent writing on the subject has taken the form of a
reply to you, in fact it is made in the context of the contributions of
many others in addition to yourself and therefore encompasses the scope
and tenor of the entire discussion. Still, surely these others pale in
significance in comparison with your incumbent majesty, and it is to be
understood that you might consider yourself the ultimate recipient of
both all honour and all calumny in the universe you now command.

Your humble servant,

Winslow Yerxa

--- Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Winslow Yerxa" wrote:
> 
> <===Richard.
> <
> <All of this obsession with controlling the pitch and sound of
> altered
> <notes is in my opinion a big, fat, waste of time, and I for one have
> <other fish to fry.
> <
> <====WInslow
> <
> <Your perfectly valid choice - for you as one person. My only
> <requirement of you or anyone else is to make your own choices for
> <yourself as an individual, and never to say never for anyone
> <else.
> 
> Well!  I was unaware that I had been elected master of the universe. 
> I 
> am duly impressed with my own magnificent power. And yet, I am
> humble.
> 
> So okay, Winslow, if it makes you feel any better, I promise not to
> use 
> my awesome, unmatched powers ever to command, coerce, or compel, 
> wittingly or otherwise, anyone on this list -- or in the known
> universe, 
> or even indeed in universes not yet discovered where people (or
> whatever 
> life forms pass for people in those mysterious places) might feel 
> obliged for reasons of any sort to slavishly follow my implicit or 
> explicit commands -- to abandon their unremitting and undoubtedly
> worthy 
> efforts to spend all of their extremely valuable time, the only 
> unrecoverable resource in this universe beyond life itself, trying to
> 
> master every possible permutation of overblown or bent notes, just 
> because I think, after years and years of practice and careful 
> listening, that it's a big, big, fat, fat, waste of time.
> 
> And I do think it's a big, big, fat, fat, waste of time, time, time,
> time.
> 
> But those of you whom I have previously commanded, upon pain of
> whatever 
> it was I threatened you with, to abstain from striving for impossible
> 
> perfection in your bending and overblowing -- I release you!  You are
> 
> free! You may pursue your muses, even stupid, heartless, unresponsive
> 
> muses, if that is your wish!
> 
> While I'm at it, I swear not to command everyone on this list to send
> me 
> $50, even though I truly think that's a better thing for anyone to do
> 
> than spend all his or her time practicing overblows.
> 
> Regards, Richard Hunter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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