[CAUT] Tuning--again

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Tim writes: 
 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.

Fred replies; 
 >  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.<<

    I think you misunderstood what Kelly was saying.  He was not making a 
joke.  He was referring to a tuner's  integrity and on what basis we make 
decisions. 
     "Moral" refers to the consideration of right and wrong.  It has 
nothing to do with religion or how "important" a decision is, (though history is 
filled with examples of religious "morality"  becoming the basis for 
slaughter).
   What Kelly Ward was telling me was that we have to judge ourselves with 
each decision we make while tuning a piano.  Those are moral decisions. 
Regards, 
 
Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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