On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Steve Pearson wrote: > higher we go, fudging those thirds and sevenths unconsciously. Tuning > for violinists is usually my greatest challenge, because they don't > understand why a piano can't be tuned to match these extreme octave > stretches, or match the perfect fifths we fiddlists tune. sigh... > Sometimes I suspect there is subconscious need to demonstrate their > extraordinary ear, and test your willingness to comply. It usually goes > away after the first successful manipulation. "This is only a test". > just some thoughts... I think it was Norm Neblett who used to tune for Jascha Heifitz. No matter how perfectly Norm would tune the piano, Heifitz would always find one thing "wrong" with the tuning, even if it took him ten minutes to find it. So, Norm started leaving one obvious klunker which Heifitz could find readily, then he fixed it and was done. Steve Brady, RPT University of Washington Seattle, WA
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