Confirming telecon (was Fork or Float)

[Jim Harvey]

Bill,

Although paraphrased, you reviewed my exact thoughts about what
subsequently became your Journal article on pitch float. I'm
impressed by your recall!

I suppose this means I have no complaints, and therefore can't
insist on your sending me some ice cream too...?

Jim Harvey, RPT
Greenwood, SC

> I made that comment about talking candidly "within earshot of the
> young'uns", because of an issue having nothing to do with who's green and
> who knows it all. In this disucusion about adhering to the pitch
> standard, there's an element of "Do as I say, not as I do". It was there
> in '93 when the-PTJ editor Jim Harvey was deciding whether the Journal
> should run an article which said that allowing the pitch to float (even
> 15 cents either direction) had little effect on a piano's inharmoncity or
> tone quality, and that when the weather has a piano on a yo-yo, it's
> probably better for the piano and the tuning not to drag the piano back
> to A440. He knew that in an organisation which made A440 its standard of
> honor (that we were honor-bound to maintain pianos at A440), such an
> article would cause plenty of grumbling and muttering in the background,
> and possibly even a few letters in his mailbox. But he also knew that the
> business of pitch floating was certainly more widespread than anyone care
> to admit, and that now was as good a time as any for the matter to appear
> in print.

Jim Harvey
Greenwood: The largest city in S.C. *without* an Interstate