I have suggested no such thing, Norm. This is a confusion of other people's posts. And customer communication is the bottom line of the whole shebang, telling them as exactly as possible, using the right language, to inform them of the quality of the "tuning", and what to expect. Paul In a message dated 8/28/2009 11:15:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, barr8345 at bellsouth.net writes: 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: > > > In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > wimblees at aol.com writes: > > I pitch raised and fine tuned it > > 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. > > P > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090829/3d893cf7/attachment-0001.htm>
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