for your (radical turn)

[Cy Shuster]

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Do you always tune "Representative Victorian", or do you pick a =
different HT based on the piano and its players?  I've heard HTs can =
make spinets, in particular, sound better.

I've always thought an HT would be great for beginners, who aren't going =
to get into more than two sharps or flats for a couple of years.  May as =
well let 'em enjoy those thirds!

--Cy--
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  From: Farrell=20
  To: Pianotech=20
  Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 11:58 AM
  Subject: Re: for your (radical turn)


  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 =

  > 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
  >=20
  > I have one Professor who insists on having his Young Chang piano =
tuned=20
  > 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.
  >=20
  > 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.  =

  > They have their ciriculum... and thats what life is about..  .
  >=20
  > Nice turn tho Ed
  >=20
  > RicB
  >=20
  > 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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  > >
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