Ed wrote:..''Then I spent an hour tuning a Moore and Co. Victorian style ET,(which is really a mild WT). Sister Rosemary loved it, said that is somehow sounded like the piano she remembered from her youth, and she is not old enough to have been around in 1880. '' When I tuned well temperaments in the Bay Area in the '80's(thats the 1980's) occasionally I would tune for an older person who would comment that he/she had not heard piano tuning like mine since he/she was growing up. Where, I asked, and When? Often childhood and youth for that person had been around the time of WW I, and the location was England. Enough of these encounters, and I started to believe it: the time frame was about right, and the 'Olde' tunings are reported to have been in common practice later in England than elsewhere. Paul Bailey In a message dated 3/28/02 5:44:56 PM, owner-pianotech-digest@ptg.org writes: << Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:26:47 EST From: A440A@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Bay Area Pitches (was Re: Steinway 457cps pitch) > Understandably there will be factors > involved that are hard to predict, but is there a way to get really close? Greetings, Yes, there are ways. They are called SAT,RCT, VT etc. (Pitch raisins don't mean throwing dried grapes around). This morning I was called to the "Mother house", a Catholic home for elderly nuns here in Nashville. The Steinway B had been left flat some years before and I was looking at a pitch raise of 10 cents in the bass, 15 cents in the middle, and almost 40 cents in the 7th octave. I used the SAT to give me a compensated measure at each octave as I went up from A1. After 15 minutes, I reached C88 with the entire piano at 440, give or take 2-3 cents. That is really close for this amount of raising. Then, I spent an hour tuning a Moore and Co. Victorian style ET,(which is really a mild WT). Sister Rosemary loved it, said that is somehow sounded like the piano she remembered from her youth, and she is not old enough to have been around in 1880. How close is close enough? Regards, Ed Foote RPT >>
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