[CAUT] Tuning--again

[Fred Sturm]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:27 PM, tcoates1 at sio.midco.net wrote:

> I read the quote  below to my wife and neither one of us understand  
> it.  My father was a minister and one of my best friends is a  
> minister.  I must not be tuning the right pianos because I don't  
> consider myself even close to the type of decisions they make.  I  
> really am in awe of piano techs whose tunings truly have moral  
> implications.

Hi TIm,
	I think the point is that, for the obsessed, rather silly piano  
technicians, those decisions about where to place some individual note  
become so important as to become "moral" decisions. It's a poke at how  
seriously we take our work, when it really doesn't have anywhere near  
that level of importance. Though from the heat and passion generated  
in some of the discussions, we certainly give the impression of  
talking about life and death issues.
	It's a joke, okay? Poking fun at ourselves and what we do, and our  
attitude toward it.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu