---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 8/28/02 11:20:46 AM Central Daylight Time, dkvander@joplin.com writes: > In past years I have attempted to tune pianos in the colleges I tune for to > A-440 each tuning. This has caused me extra work (usually unpaid), and > mental stress. > > This year I have floated pitch on every piano I have tuned, and I feel so > much happier! No one has complained about the pianos being at A-442 or > A-443, and the pianos are behaving better. When the temperature is 72 > Fahrenheit, and the relative humidity is 83% indoors in the music building, > floating pitch is the only way to go. > > Thanks to Kent Swafford, I have finally seen the light! > > David Vanderhoofven > With all due respect to Kent, I wholeheartedly disagree with floating pitch. Our job, regardless of how much time and effort it takes, is to tune pianos to the correct pitch, especially in a college situation, where pianos are used by many different people, and are most likely used to accompany other instruments. I could maybe see floating the pitch on a piano that is used only in a home, where no other instruments are being played. But not in a college setting. I'm sorry, David, that you think you have found a new light. But it's not a light I want to see. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/9e/9e/14/d0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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