[pianotech] PR follow up

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Fri Aug 28 18:36:05 MDT 2009


PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote:

>     Well, nobody asked, but in case at least that many care - in
>     my world, David's got it right.
> 
> Well, Ron, nobody did, but David has a perspective, as do you, which is 
> not "right" but self-informed, and so also not "wrong".

Self informed? What's your authority?


>     I see no reason, presuming the
>     piano's tunable in the first place, that it can't be left in
>     an acceptable 
> 
> So, "acceptable" = "adequate" or "fine"? Which is it?
>  
> Do these words mean nothing? Is there no distinction?
>  
> 
>     state of tune after a pitch raise. If, during
>     the process, every realistic effort is made to pound the slack
>     out of the back scale, followed by a real attempt to leave a
>     stable string as you typically would, there's no reason you
>     shouldn't end up with a piano as in tune as if you hadn't done
>     a pitch raise. 
> 
> Can you substitute the word "stable" in place of "in tune" and make the 
> same flat claim? (no pun intended)
>  
> I agree with everything else you say, but I don't know what kind of 
> tuning you are describing.

Only because you're not trying.
Ron N


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