With all respect to a PTG legend...the more I think about it, the more ridiculous the comment seems. What exactly would an immoral decision be in tuning a piano? Or does the tuner always make the moral decision when he tunes? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: A440A at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org 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 > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See >Yours >in Just 2 Easy Steps! >(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221823265x1201398681/aol?redir=ht >tp://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072& >hmpgID=62&bcd=JuneExcfooterNO62)</HTML>
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