Hi Jim I'm not so sure I agree... at least not entirely. Ok one does absolutely nothing to change the mechanical features of the action perse. But the pianists perception of touch is kind of this big ol bowl of <<my fingers do this and the piano does that (sound)>> One thing I often hear from pianists is that the sense of eveneness improves after a tuning. From an overall response perspective this seems reasonable to me. Differing degrees of out of tuness can easily be experienced in terms of different output response for input. Tuning addresses this rather directly. Whether or not one can use the term psychological or not in this respect may perhaps be an excursion into semantics... but something real and tangeble is changed that alters the pianist experience as much as their perception... at least thats my take on it. Cheers RicB ------------- Years ago, I noticed that people would sometimes tell me that the piano played so much better after I tuned it. I expected comments like this if I had done some regulation. Accomplished pianists would always notice the difference. But others, not quite so accomplished, would sometimes tell me the piano played better after I tuned it, even though I did no regulation at all. In those cases, I concluded that it was purely psychological. Jim Ellis
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