Tuning forks

[Susan Kline]

Hi, Jim! Comments interspersed.


><<>Whatever did we do before the SAT?
>Jeff Tanner, Piano Technician,<>>
><<"I don't know, but whatever it is, I'm still doing it.
>Susan">>
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>Jeff;
>I agree with Susan here :-)

Thanks!

><snip> ......it might not be exactly ON
>but................................ more than likely close enough to pass the
>pitch at 100 and certainly close enough for most daily tunings......concert
>work is a different matter, with different, and differing, matters to
>consider :-(
>My view.
>Jim Bryant (FL)

Jim, can you enlarge on this? With the test, we're talking about precision 
to roughly <grin> 1 cent, more or less. If there's any reason why a piano 
tuned for a concert needs to be any closer than that, I would be interested 
to find out what it is! In my experience, the orchestra has pitch 
variations large enough to drive a truck through, even when their 
intonation is relatively good.

Or did you just mean that there are more important things than precision in 
setting the A? Such as voicing, noise abatement, octave stretch, not 
alarming the artists, making stuff work ("all the klunkers klunk", as 
Horace once put it), getting done on time, having a tuning last past 
Liszt's Harmonies du Soir, etc.

Regards,

Susan