I thought I would let you all know what finally happened with this tuning for Peter Serkin the other week. I was scheduled to tune at 11:30am Friday and again at 5:30 pm Saturday. On Thursday I got an email from Peter's manager with jpegs of four sheets of information from Tim Farley that included some offsets. For the record, here they are: F: 4.5 F#: -3.4 G: 2.2 G#:-5.6 A: 0.0 A#: 5.6 B: -2.2 C: 3.3 C#: -4.5 D: 1.1 D#: 6.7 E: -1.1 I also got an email from my contact at the symphony telling me that I should be prepared to tune either the 7th meantone or ET. I arrived a little before 11:30 on Friday, walked out onto the stage and......no piano. They don't own one, they get a Steinway C&A from Steinert's. Shari. the production manager, told me that the piano was "on its way" and should arrive within about 20 minutes. We did a quick calculation of how long I could wait to tune it once it arrived and be done in time for the first rehearsal, and I went and had a cup of coffee for about an hour. When I came back the piano was there and Shari had turned the stage lights on it so it was more warmed up than it would have otherwise been. Oh yeah, after all that, they wanted ET. It had to do with the dealer wanting the piano put back to ET and the symphony not wanting to pay for extra tunings. The symphony people were feeling perhaps a bit less than accommodating because they only heard about the tuning issue that Monday. So I tuned, and when I came back the next day at 5:30 for the pre-concert tuning I was pleased to find the pitch pretty much right where I'd left it. I met Peter and we chatted a bit about tunings and he said he was happy with the piano. And I got there a little early on Saturday and got to hear the final run through of the last two movements of Beethoven's 4th. The long and short of it is that had the tuning been part of the contract, it would have not been a problem, but throwing something like this in at the last minute didn't go over well at all. I'm sorry I didn't get to try the 7th meantone after all that, but at least I got the beginning of an education in something that I'm sure will come up again as the use of UETs begins to spread. Again, thanks to all for your help. Aaron ------------------------------------------ Aaron Bousel abousel at comcast.net (413) 253-3544 (voice) (413) 253-3846 (voice & fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090309/d3df0846/attachment.html>
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