This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: LHudicek@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: February 17, 2002 5:49 AM Subject: Re: Prepared Pianos question In a message dated 2/16/2002 7:08:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, = cedel@supernet.com writes: A pianist came in while the piano technician was tuning for a = concert and insisted that the piano be tuned to A-442. I don't suppose my next life's dissertation on microtonal tuning will = be warmly received either! :). =20 Technicians tend to get worked up over this quite often. I think as = often as not it boils down to money. It takes extra time and effort to = make these pitch changes in a piano and somebody has to pay the bill. = The piano owner--the hall, university, etc.--rarely has the money to pay = anything extra and it is often the tuner who ends up on the short end of = the food chain.=20 This can be alleviated, though not entirely solved, by prior agreements = with the piano owner about who should pay the additional charges. Most = of us who worked out arrangements such that the artist or orchestra or = whoever was requesting the special pitch found that when money entered = the picture the pitch change became somewhat less important. So the = question then becomes, was it ever really important? or just somebody's = ego speaking out? And I'll not be at all ashamed to tell you that often = the piano is actually tuned to A=3D440 and the artist told it is at = A=3D442 (or whatever) and no one besides the tuner really knows the = truth. And then there is the blind tuner I once knew who had a set of = five tuning forks made up all tuned to A=3D440 but marked A=3D440, = A=3D441, A=3D442, etc., and asked the artist to choose the correct one = for him. In some years of tuning for concerts and recordings he was = never found out and the pianos he maintained remained stable and tuned = to A=3D440. Regards, Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Designer & Builder Hoquiam, Washington USA E.mail: pianobuilders@olynet.com Web Site: www.pianobuilders.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/56/00/43/f5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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