Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)

[Jason Kanter]

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I agree that the Moore would be a good candidate (also the Wendell Lite) ...
but in this case I am ethically bound to stick with a strict ET until I can
give him a demo.

Or else maybe I can do such a dynamite job on the next piano (he's asked me
to tune the dining room piano at the resort, and says he will have me tune
his Yamaha grand just before he records his next CD) ... that I can ask
again, show him the gentle charts, and promise to retune it in ET for free
if he doesn't like the Moore. But he was SO uncomfortable that I feel right
now that I should stay away from the issue.

I do not feel comfortable tuning a Moore without telling him.

The question becomes, shall I tune a Moore for the *next* customer without
even raising the issue of WTs?

From: Erwinspiano@AOL.COM
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:37:24 EDT
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Subject: Re: Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)


In a message dated 8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jkanter@rollingball.com writes:


Subj:Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)
Date:8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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      Jason


           Try the moore victorian. It has enough flavor for key colorations
similar but distant enough fom e.t. to make it interesting. I'll bet he'd
like this a good deal more and in fact if he thought it was e.t. and didn't
know in advance it might be the best E.T. he's ever heard. Know what I mean?
   Dale Erwin


Personally I am very intrigued and excited by the sound and feel of WTs. I
purchased the "6 degrees" CD and was very moved by it.

As I have mentioned in the past, I am just starting to tune again after a
lapse of years, and as I am a fulltime training manager at a bank, I only
have a little time to do it. I have a summer place on Orcas Island in the
San Juans, and have struck up a friendship with a pianist/performer who has
several of his own CDs out and plays regularly at the Rosario Resort. I have
been trying to get him interested in historic temperaments, because I
believe his style of music (tapestries of sound largely in the natural keys)
will benefit from a gentle WT.

He recently hired me to tune the 1900 Steinway in this resort's performance
hall. A week before the tuning, I lent him the "Six Degrees" CD and asked
him to listen to it and then tell me what he thought. (Of course, I expected
him to like what he heard.) But his reaction was quite different. It made
him shudder. He found it weird, strange, uncomfortable, and he earnestly
asked me to just tune the piano with a normal ET.

So I promised not to mention it again (he visibly relaxed) ... but I said
that I will one day tune a piano on the island in one of these temperaments
that I think he will like, and I will arrange for him to come play it for an
hour. 

He loved the ET I did; commented to me that he is lingering longer on chords
as he enjoys the harmonics.

My take-away from this experience is that the Six Degrees CD is too extreme
to use as a "lure" to WT. Maybe the choice of the Mozart Fantasie is too
brooding, and its repetition three times in three different temperaments is
too much. Not sure. But I won't use *that* again.

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jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching
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