[CAUT] professor tuning variables

[Jeff Tanner]

Hi Ric,
We already know "a bit about UET and a bit of relevant music history."  But 
neither we nor anyone else on the planet know enough about the two to make a 
claim that we are the experts in putting the two together. It isn't "a bit" 
we will be expected to know.  If we bring it up, then we'll be expected to 
push it farther. The point is that I can foresee having a very few, if more 
than one or two clients - probably composers - who will want you to learn 
every doggone temperament in the book and then decide to make up a few of 
his own.  And it will be up to us to spend hours and hours of time 
researching and practicing various temperaments for one person instead of 
working on the verticals in the practice rooms or finally getting that grand 
restrung that's been sitting in the shop for 6 months, with 17 more in line 
after it.

And while someone mentioned that we should charge extra for that sort of 
thing, you have to bear in mind it will probably be the salaried staff tech 
who can't change his income that will bear the brunt of most of that.

Slippery slope thing.
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] professor tuning variables


> While I agree in principle that one can spread oneself to thin.... I 
> hardly see that learning a bit about UET and a bit of relevant music 
> history is tantamount to stretching oneself too thin. Its just not that 
> much work.  I have no problem with anyone simply not being interested 
> themselves. But lets not try and justify a clear and simple matter of 
> preference with attempts at objective reasoning justify these.  Hey... its 
> cool to just say "UET's are not my bag"
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
>
>    Jeff,
>
>    I agree with what  you said. There are too many times when a
>    technician wants to delve into so many different things that,
>    instead of being able to perfect the skills that are needed, they
>    can compromise these skills by being a jack of all trades. While I
>    fine nothing wrong with wanting to broaden one's horizons, you can
>    get to a point of diminishing a needed skill in one area just for
>    the sake of saying that you can now do something else that you never
>    did before and in the long run it does not amount to a hill of
>    beans. If you and many others are like me, you have a tough time
>    trying to keep things as good as they should and need to be let
>    alone trying to go after something that you might use once in your
>    life if even then.
>
>    God bless
>
>    Bill Balmer, RPT
>    Ohio Northern University and the University of Findlay
>
>
>