for your (radical turn)

[Farrell]

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Last week I tuned a 1980s S&S M for a new client. He just moved down =
here from Manhattan. He has always had "Steinway" technicians service =
his piano. He "warned" me that he has had arguments about whether some =
notes were "in tune" with technicians in the past.

I raised the pitch 25 cents to A440 and tuned it to the "Representative =
Victorian" temperament on my Verituner. He sat down and banged out a =
movement from the Appassionata while I packed up my tools (and watched =
in amazement and awe). After he was done, he said "piano is perfect - =
never sounded so good". I'm not really sure if my tuning was that good =
(the piano did tune up well - I was unusually happy with it), if he just =
liked the temperament, or if his past service personnel were sub-par.

FWIW, I pretty much only tune in ET on request - and that is only a very =
few pianos.

Terry Farrell

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From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: for your (radical turn)


> I can echo Ed here...      yet I still struggle with an unbeleivalbe=20
> apathy I find amoung so many of the pianists around here. Their=20
> reactions to HT's,  when they react at all... are always as Ed =
describes=20
> below.... but getting them to actually DO something with this new=20
> <<toy>> is another matter.=20
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> 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=20
> this same guy doesnt want to work up a program based on HT's... nor=20
> spend any time exposing his students to the potential.
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> I just know that sooner or later something will spark and the ball =
will=20
> get rolling... but the basic GAFFER attitude I find amoung young=20
> pianists and faculty at the University level sometimes astounds me. =20
> They have their ciriculum... and thats what life is about..  .
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> Nice turn tho Ed
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> RicB
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> A440A@aol.com wrote:
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> >Bill writes:=20
> ><< Now what was the subject, temperaments? <G> >>
> >
> >Humm, now that you mention it.... =20
> >    I had a new customer call me to tune a Steinway M yesterday.  =
Said that=20
> >he had decided to sell it and wanted it to sound its best.  Told me =
to do=20
> >whatever I thought would make it most attractive. So,  I tuned it in =
a Broadwood.=20
> >He sat down and played it.  His wife (also a musician and =
songwriter), came=20
> >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=20
> >did, "This piano has never sounded this good!" Not sure they want to =
part with=20
> >it, now. =20
> >    Last week, a studio owner also had me tune, but asked to return =
to ET for=20
> >an overdub session that was going in E maj.  He told me that since he =
had=20
> >become used to the Coleman 11, the piano just sounds out of tune to =
him in ET and=20
> >wants to return to WT as soon as possible. =20
> >   Like I said last century,  this stuff will just not go away!  =
Politicians=20
> >will, but not the WTT's  (well-tempered tuners). =20
> >Regards,=20
> >
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