[CAUT] Tuning--again

[David Ilvedson]

Kelly would have made more sense if he'd left out the preacher reference...personally, it sounds like a thrown out there comment...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

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Received: 6/16/2009 12:10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Tuning--again


>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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