[CAUT] Tuning--again

[David Ilvedson]

It's a joke!   If you don't think so, you are taking yourself too seriously...imho!!!!

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 6/16/2009 6:04:18 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Tuning--again


>Fred, and others:
> 
>It's no joke. What is good? What is perfect? What's good enough? Who's  
>there to tell? Who's there who can tell. Driving to the good is intensely  
>moral. Or perhaps ethical is better. This is not a put-down to ministers or  
>anyone else, but a cogent statement which highlights the personal (moral)  
>activity of creating a value. Joke? I think not.
> 
>Paul
> 
> 
>In a message dated 6/16/2009 11:11:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
>fssturm at unm.edu writes:

>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





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