harp temp

[Garret Traylor]

Ray,
I just spent 3 years in Okinawa, my wife and I were at Kadena Air Force 
Base, she was Navy.  Your story is very familiar to me!  I did a little 
piano tuning while I was there, I meet a couple of piano players there in 
the band. I don't remember the guys names now but I always enjoyed hearing 
them play.  Go Marines!  Hang in there.  I appreciate the job you are doing.
-Garret

>From: RIrvingbas@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: harp temp
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:33:30 EST
>
>Hi there list,
>
>We have a very talented harpist in my unit, The United States Army Field
>Band, and I can say for sure that she tunes dead on with the tuner, without
>stretching. This is the same way that all of our keyboard percussion
>instruments were tuned at the factories. This does occasionally result in
>clashes with the “tunable” instruments, such as the clarinets, 
>trumpets,
>and, yes, my own double bass (which I also tune pure). Of course I can more
>easily adjust to those around me than the harp can.
>
>I happen to be the band's piano technician, as well as playing in the 
>concert
>band. I can't count the number of times a clarinetist will tune their Bb 
>with
>one of my pianos, and then are surprised that they are still out of tune 
>with
>it. That's when I give the standard “the piano is tempered but you are 
>not”
>lecture. Ah well. That's the way it goes sometimes. Working for Uncle Sam 
>as
>a member of the military is never dull, fur shure.
>
>Ray Irving
>

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