Good, important thread: the beauty of doing your best, all the time, leavened by the "time slavery" of the commercial realm. A fascinating contrast. Perfection, to me, is doing the best tuning I possibly can within 1.5 hours, and then being incredibly pleased and thrilled with the sound of the tuning. Vis a vis the strings of a piano: everything moves all the time. Think excellence and inspiration---doing your best----rather than technical perfection, which IMO is unattainable. DA >I think, Don... if you are carefull enough to look at the context of the >thread,,, the useage of quotes around the word "perfect" and other such >obvious qualifiers... then you would see easily enough that we are not >talking about the kind of << perfect >> you rightly dismiss below. > >Yet perfection in the sense Andre' and others use the word is very >attaineable. It is also far too easy to slide right by in a moment of >hurriedness or similar distraction. > >RicB > >Don wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'd settle for a perfect unison--if I thought that was possible then I'd >> consider a perfect octave--then if that were possible I'd look for a >> perfect temperament. >> >> Perfection is not attaineable with the accoustic piano. Deal with it and >> move on. >> >> >> >> >> >> David I wrote: >> >> >> >> > > How long does >> >> > > that "perfect" tuning last anyway? Couple hours? Couple days? >> >> > > >> >> > > David I. >> > >> >This is a justification for what ?.... I suppose the perfect tuning will >> >last long enough for a concert, a recording session, to give a customer >> >those few extra hours of refinement. Cost effective has to be in the >> >picture to be sure... but we want to be careful of finding reasons to >> >not do the best we can... in all circumstances. >> >> > >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >UiB, Bergen, Norway >mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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