> The question becomes, shall I tune a Moore for the *next* customer without > even raising the issue of WTs? Sure! Why not? I do. (flame suit on) Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Kanter" <jkanter@rollingball.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: Re: Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:) > 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 > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:37:24 EDT > To: pianotech@ptg.org > 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 > From:jkanter@rollingball.com > Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org > To:pianotech@ptg.org > Sent from the Internet > > 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. > > || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| > jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching > bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 > orcas island * 360 376 2799 > || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| > > > > > >
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