Dear list------ Ah, the tuning debates!! "Endless are the arguments of mages....." Ursula LeGuin I tune for myself; to challenge myself. I think my ears are as good as any pair of ears in the world, and I have tuned thousands of pianos to get to the point where my tuning----which is some form of mutated ET----satisfies me a good deal of the time---maybe 80%----and satisfies the many, many fantastic players and singers and producers I work for 99.9% of the time. If the fourths all roll slowly, pretty much equally, the piano will sound just great; it will be "automatically" stretched to sound musical, resonant, and soaring----when recorded, it will sound like the pianos on the great recordings of the '30's and '40's----extremely sweet and musical. The mechanics of a great tuning are dead simple; the massive challenge is in having the skill, and patience, and commitment, to do it over and over and give it your best shot every time. It's a deep, deep craft. Cheers, kids.........your ears are part of the greatest computer ever built. David Andersen Malibu, CA
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