[CAUT] Tuning--again

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-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David
Ilvedson
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:34 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Tuning--again


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

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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
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