Temperament$

[Farrell]

> "I called on the spirit of Owen Jorgensen and wound up my SAT
> III with a "Broadwood's Best" slapped on top of his FAC."

Well, good golly! My wife just asked me the other day that when I tune our
piano next time could I tune it in a different HT (it has been tuned in
Valotti for the past six months or so - and she loves it) just to see what
else is out there. I have not heard of the "Broadwood's Best". Would you
share the offsets for it? What can you tell us about its characteristics -
compared to Valotti or ET?

Sounds like you had a wonderful experience. You are lucky. You are also
lucky to have the ability to see and appreciate it. Jolly good show mate!

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: Temperament$


> Greetings,
>     It was the last tuning of the week. A really nice, burl walnut Baldwin
> with a pinblock whose "attitude" has been softened by the 50 years of
tuning
> that my customer had been paying for.
snip
>    I gave him a quick explanation of what seemed to be going on in the
> Broadwood factory in 1880 and he said, " I never heard of anything like
that,
> but go ahead".   I called on the spirit of Owen Jorgensen and wound up my
SAT
> III with a "Broadwood's Best" slapped on top of his FAC.  Since we were
going
> to be a little avante-garde here, I also threw in a .5 double octave
stretch
> compensation, too.
>    I finished the job, asked him to take it for a spin, and he sat down
and
> played "Somewhere, Over The Rainbow". He plays well and it sounded good.
> I started to say something, but before I could, he began a Brahms piece,
116
> nr.6 (in Eb, I think).    When he finished, he looked up and I was
startled
> to see that he had tears in his eyes.  He said that he had never heard his
> piano sing like that, and was staggered by the beauty of the sound.  I
hemmed
> and hawed while trying to look like what I thought a genius should look
like.
> Regards to all,
> Ed Foote RPT
>
>