Hard tuning is better than good tuning?

BSimon1234 BSimon1234@aol.com
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 03:05:55 EDT


Mike Jorgensen wrote:

<<My older brother Les who served
as a CTE for years says that the hard hitting tuners have the clearest
sounding tunings but are not always the most accurate. Some tuners use
deficient test blows and pass the stability and accuracy tests just
fine, yet their tunings typically don't sound very clear. >>

Is this not oxymoronic? You are flatly saying that a stable and accurate
tuning is not as good as one that is not as accurate, but in which the strings
were hit harder.  What happens if a normal person then just plays the piano
normally hard? 

Perhaps your hard hitters that don't tune as well have developed a new
temperament that is superior to equal temperament. It perhaps can be explored
and explained?

B. Simon
Phoenix



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