Tuning Tunes

[Nichols]

At 08:42 PM 3/13/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>What tunes do you use as your 'test' tunes to play when you are finished 
>tuning?

Depends a bit on the piano, sometimes, don't you agree? I don't do the 
Military Polonaise on the dinky spinet or super-rattley upright. Also, it 
can depend on the level of player of that piano. If the player is real 
good, I stick with simple chords and arpeggios, to check the tuning and 
knock out anything that may need tweaking. If it's a beginner, I quite 
often will play a couple of the pieces from whatever book came off of the 
piano, and then something more advanced.

Otherwise...... Chopin for the guys, blues for the gals.

"Summertime" is always in order, with repeating certain phrases in 
different octaves to check the balance of a voicing.

I also almost always offer the customer: "Wanna take it for a test drive? 
The keys are in it!"

>  And if there is a reason - why?

As one artist/customer says, as she puts in six hours a day..... "For the 
beauty..."

>:)
>Dorie


Guy




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