Ed, Speaking of telling the truth, I am curious as to what you tell your customers that ask you how long the piano will stay in tune. Do you tell them in six months, or, "the moment I drive away"? ;-). There is no way to be truthful about something that is impossible to quantify, so I tell customers that tunings are as stable as the environment. (I don't worry about the piano being played hard enough to knock strings out of place. ) They have come to the conclusion that my tunings last longer than others, and they are happy to pay extra for knowing that I am taking care of their baby. It helps a lot when the piano is tuned in something other than ET, since with that tuning, everything except the unisons is out of tune to begin with. A mild WT seems to be pleasant longer. As techs, we often equate the 14 cent third with being "in tune", but that is not the way musicians listen. I am accustomed to professional pianists that comment on how "in tune" a piano sounds with a Moore and Co. temp. It makes enough of a difference that many of my customers are mine because my tunings have their own "sound". That helps with the price difference, too. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100311/7ef048b6/attachment.htm>
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