Dear Sy and the list, If you look in the Pianotech Archives under the topic "World's Worst Tuner" and "Lawful Pitch" in March 1997, you can see some earlier discussion of this topic. Sincerely, David At 10:36 PM 1/25/98 -0700, you wrote: >List--from Sy Zabrocki: > >For about six months a music director from a large church asked me to tune 3 pianos low. I was reluctant to do this but finally caved in. One was a Kawai KG-2 and 2 old uprights. In fact he even gave me a tuning fork which measured 44 cents low on the Acc >u-tuner. > >He gave me a 14 page document which describes some kind of belief that the lower pitch is more in tune with the human body. The cover page in entitled: > >A Manual--On the Rudiments of Tuning and Registration >Book I--Introduction and Human Singing Voice Schiller Institute 1992 >All this gobble-gook was too much for me and I just smiled at him while he tried to convince me it has been proven the human voice is more comfortably at this pitch. There is apparently some group of society promoting this and this is where he obtained th >e special tuning fork. >Sy Zabrocki--RPT David A. Vanderhoofven, RPT Joplin, Missouri, USA e-mail: dkvander@clandjop.com web page: http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ #pianotech page: http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ircpiano.html
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