> Andrew wrote: ... Has somebody offended you? 
Not lately, not really.

> I was asking for your insights as they are always valuable.

Very kind of you. I get tempted to intervene, whether asked or not, and I do
it too often: not good for me, not good for many others.

> The issue with moving such discussions off list is that all the tuning
lists are full of topics such as microtonality which bear little
relationship in general to harpsichord matters, ...

You are right, we should have three HARPSICHORD lists: 1) making, 2) playing
and 3) tuning, it is just that we are so few! Even on Facebook the
contributors to the "HARPSICHORD ..." group are a handful ...

> I think you mean participation, not intervention, don't you?

Yeah, sure. I just google "intervention": "An intervention is the act of
inserting one thing between others, like a person trying to help." 

> ... not everyone has access to all publicly available literature in
libraries.

>  have not university library access at present either. Yet, I find that I
most of the significant works (by Lindley, Barbieri and others) are indeed
available online: articles for free, books for a price (but there are few
specialists and each one has a single main book on temperaments, this is a
once-only cost).

> Don't disappear please!

So kind of you Andrew! I will always be reading and taking part in
non-tuning matters!

Best

Claudio


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