[CAUT] why does it feel better?

[Chris Solliday]

 Yes Jeff even children, 
This seems the best place to tag on my subjective little story to this important thread. My piano teacher (one of several but the best one I ever had) was a local gran dame of Swiss origin who taught other local boys like Willard Martin and Keith Jarrett and used to spout, among other chestnuts, to us on a semi-regular basis, that "the life of the piano is in its tuning." I appreciate that more everyday and even use it regularly in my spiel to my customers, along with some Guild literature, a few less subjective threats and a couple of curried enticements.
It feels different because it is different.
Chris Solliday
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Tanner 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] why does it feel better?


  On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Willem Blees wrote:


    So why does tuning the piano, not just a regular ET tuning, but also a 

    historical tuning, make the piano feel different? 





  Late yesterday I tuned a new, out-of-the-crate console, that before tuning sounded muffled and felt heavy. Not much fun to play on. After tuning, it is a warm, rich, focused instrument, and, if I didn't know better, I"d swear 10 grams lighter. All of a sudden I didn't want to get up from the piano. It is an amazing phenomenon.


  When the tuning is dirty, the music and the player are at the mercy of the noises being produced, so there is a loss of control. I think that when the tuning is under control, the pianist feels more in control and free to be more musical. 


  Even children will feel a difference.


  It makes me wonder how composers could be continually inspired to compose when the fortepiano they were composing on would go out of tune during the day.


  Jeff T



  Jeff Tanner, RPT
  University of South Carolina





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