[pianotech] PR follow up

[Norm Barrett]

Paul,
IMHO the biggest point you are nor addressing is the needs of the 
customer. How "fine" a tuning is this individual  interested in paying 
for?  Exactly what is a perfect tuning? Good musicians have preferences. 
Some like greatly stretched while others like solid octaves.
The pianos we usually encounter that need large pitch raises have been 
neglected. This could be that they just acquired it or it just sat there 
unused.
To tell a customer that I have to come back in 2 weeks to get a fine 
tuning when they have let the piano go for years is almost humorous. If 
the piano sounds great when I leave, thats all I can expect.
If the humidity changes in the next week, the piano will go out of tune 
no matter how great a tuning you did, but if the customer does not hear 
it, are you imposing your criteria by insisting on a return visit?
Norm Barrett

PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> wimblees at aol.com writes:
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>     I pitch raised and fine tuned it
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> I say,  "No you didn't. You tuned it adequately". This is my only 
> point, the confusion between fine and adequate tuning. Whatever 
> the causes, whatever the methods, whatever the skills, whatever the 
> piano, whatever the number of "passes", whatever, whatever, whatever. 
> Maybe it makes no difference whatsoever.
>  
> Either I am dimwitted, which I accept, or I am truly being unclear, 
> which I also accept, or there is a wholesale confusion on the concept 
> of what constitutes a "fine" tuning after a radical pitch alteration. 
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> P
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