for your (radical turn)

[Richard Brekne]

I can echo Ed here...      yet I still struggle with an unbeleivalbe 
apathy I find amoung so many of the pianists around here. Their 
reactions to HT's,  when they react at all... are always as Ed describes 
below.... but getting them to actually DO something with this new 
<<toy>> is another matter. 

I have one Professor who insists on having his Young Chang piano tuned 
to a milde well... but only because its never sounded good in ET... but 
this same guy doesnt want to work up a program based on HT's... nor 
spend any time exposing his students to the potential.

I just know that sooner or later something will spark and the ball will 
get rolling... but the basic GAFFER attitude I find amoung young 
pianists and faculty at the University level sometimes astounds me.  
They have their ciriculum... and thats what life is about..  .

Nice turn tho Ed

RicB

A440A@aol.com wrote:

>Bill writes: 
><< Now what was the subject, temperaments? <G> >>
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>Humm, now that you mention it....  
>    I had a new customer call me to tune a Steinway M yesterday.  Said that 
>he had decided to sell it and wanted it to sound its best.  Told me to do 
>whatever I thought would make it most attractive. So,  I tuned it in a Broadwood. 
>He sat down and played it.  His wife (also a musician and songwriter), came 
>downstairs and stood there.  Hint of rapture in the air...
>    After a piece or two, he looked up and said, at the same time his wife 
>did, "This piano has never sounded this good!" Not sure they want to part with 
>it, now.  
>    Last week, a studio owner also had me tune, but asked to return to ET for 
>an overdub session that was going in E maj.  He told me that since he had 
>become used to the Coleman 11, the piano just sounds out of tune to him in ET and 
>wants to return to WT as soon as possible.  
>   Like I said last century,  this stuff will just not go away!  Politicians 
>will, but not the WTT's  (well-tempered tuners).  
>Regards, 
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