Making the Transition

Billbrpt@AOL.COM Billbrpt@AOL.COM
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:29:12 EST


In a message dated 2/7/00 11:22:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
prescottpiano@juno.com writes:

<< My question is, how do piano players become tuners since they have no
 control of the intonation of the notes they play? >>

This could be a volatile question.  I'm not going to bore people with my life 
story other than to say I became my own boss because I found that I could not 
hold down a job working for anyone else.  I'm in my 31st year of unemployment 
now.  1999 was the best year yet.

One of the problems that I have seen occur with the way that people tune 
pianos, sometimes considered standard practice, "good enough" and often not 
what was really intended even though what was intended is not really very 
well understood, is that pianists often learn *not* to listen to what they 
play.  Otherwise, how could they ever tolerate it?

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin


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