This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Last week I tuned a 1980s S&S M for a new client. He just moved down = here from Manhattan. He has always had "Steinway" technicians service = his piano. He "warned" me that he has had arguments about whether some = notes were "in tune" with technicians in the past. I raised the pitch 25 cents to A440 and tuned it to the "Representative = Victorian" temperament on my Verituner. He sat down and banged out a = movement from the Appassionata while I packed up my tools (and watched = in amazement and awe). After he was done, he said "piano is perfect - = never sounded so good". I'm not really sure if my tuning was that good = (the piano did tune up well - I was unusually happy with it), if he just = liked the temperament, or if his past service personnel were sub-par. FWIW, I pretty much only tune in ET on request - and that is only a very = few pianos. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:18 PM Subject: Re: for your (radical turn) > I can echo Ed here... yet I still struggle with an unbeleivalbe=20 > apathy I find amoung so many of the pianists around here. Their=20 > reactions to HT's, when they react at all... are always as Ed = describes=20 > below.... but getting them to actually DO something with this new=20 > <<toy>> is another matter.=20 >=20 > I have one Professor who insists on having his Young Chang piano tuned = > to a milde well... but only because its never sounded good in ET... = but=20 > this same guy doesnt want to work up a program based on HT's... nor=20 > spend any time exposing his students to the potential. >=20 > I just know that sooner or later something will spark and the ball = will=20 > get rolling... but the basic GAFFER attitude I find amoung young=20 > pianists and faculty at the University level sometimes astounds me. =20 > They have their ciriculum... and thats what life is about.. . >=20 > Nice turn tho Ed >=20 > RicB >=20 > A440A@aol.com wrote: >=20 > >Bill writes:=20 > ><< Now what was the subject, temperaments? <G> >> > > > >Humm, now that you mention it.... =20 > > I had a new customer call me to tune a Steinway M yesterday. = Said that=20 > >he had decided to sell it and wanted it to sound its best. Told me = to do=20 > >whatever I thought would make it most attractive. So, I tuned it in = a Broadwood.=20 > >He sat down and played it. His wife (also a musician and = songwriter), came=20 > >downstairs and stood there. Hint of rapture in the air... > > After a piece or two, he looked up and said, at the same time his = wife=20 > >did, "This piano has never sounded this good!" Not sure they want to = part with=20 > >it, now. =20 > > Last week, a studio owner also had me tune, but asked to return = to ET for=20 > >an overdub session that was going in E maj. He told me that since he = had=20 > >become used to the Coleman 11, the piano just sounds out of tune to = him in ET and=20 > >wants to return to WT as soon as possible. =20 > > Like I said last century, this stuff will just not go away! = Politicians=20 > >will, but not the WTT's (well-tempered tuners). =20 > >Regards,=20 > > > > > > > > =20 > > >=20 > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ea/60/ec/39/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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