[CAUT] Tuning--again

[Tim Coates]

Fred,

Thanks Fred for clarifying.

Tim


On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Fred Sturm wrote:

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