This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wimblees@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/10/2004 4:53:44 PM Central Standard Time, > phil@philbondi.com writes: > > Wim, do you listen at ppp? > > For concert work, I tune at FFF. I get the middle string is in tune > with the SAT, hitting the note at least a dozen times. Then I tune the > outside string by ear, also at FFF, but making sure the SAT has not > moved, again, hitting the note at least a dozen times at FFF for each > string. In other words, the note will have had a workout. > > Comment about maybe be over doing it. I don't believe that to be the > case. We are supposed to make sure the piano will stay in tune under > the most stringent conditions. I don't think the excuse, "I > didn't know you were going to play the piano that loud," is going to > cut it when an artist complains the piano went out of tune before the > end of the first movement. In defense of my method, last year the D > at the university withstood the Rach 3rd with only one string slipping > a couple of cents. That is why I wonder why some strings on some > pianos do, and some don't, and what causes it. > > Wim Wim Wim...you didn't answer the question..I didn't ask if you tune at FFF..I asked if you listen at ppp..why? While my tuning style is similar to yours, I find that if I don't listen at a low volume, I truly don't know what the note sounds like. What you're implying is that fff is all there is.. I will disagree if that's the case. Phil Bondi(Fl) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/8b/2a/a3/59/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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