[CAUT] why does it feel better?

[Robin Blankenship]

Joe,
That is about as beautifully stated and accurate a clarification as I've 
ever seen about this very evident process. This is my personal experience 
when equipment that is working very well; and, the piano is one of those 
things which can really work on the imagination and spriit of the person 
playing it. Thank you for putting this so succinctly and accurately!!!

Robin Blankenship
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr at srvinet.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] why does it feel better?


> Hi Wim,
> Do you really want to pick up that dirty Pampers and throw it away.
> Just my thought but I think a freshly tuned piano draws a musician into 
> the
> soul of the music. Making everything  it easier to make music. The 
> musician
> Wants to touch and fully manipulate that sound, not just pick it up with 
> as
> little contact as possible, like that soiled didy.
> Joe Goss RPT
> Mother Goose Tools
> imatunr at srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willem Blees" <wblees at bama.ua.edu>
> To: "CAUT" <CAUT at ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:44 AM
> Subject: [CAUT] why does it feel better?
>
>
>> Many times over the years, I have had customers tell me the piano felt
>> better after I tuned it. One of those times was last week.
>>
>> We have 2 D's in our Concert Hall, one about 25 years old, and the
>> other just 4 years old. The new one is not being played much. On the
>> advice of Ed Foote, I put a Coleman II on the piano. We had convo on
>> Friday, and I brought out both pianos for the piano professor to try
>> out. He didn't say anything about the tuning, but he did say the new
>> one "felt" better. Another professor also mentioned that the piano
>> played better than ever before.
>>
>> So why does tuning the piano, not just a regular ET tuning, but also a
>> historical tuning, make the piano feel different?
>>
>> Wim
>> Willem Blees, RPT
>> Piano Tuner/Technician
>> School of Music
>> University of Alabama
>> Tuscaloosa, AL USA
>>
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