As Dave Porritt says, they're out there, and I've met such, and even tested such. They exist and screwing with their pitches does not make them happy. I find it very interesting to see the phrase "minor variations"- while tuners will scream to high heaven that "minor variations" in one's tuning will get them sent straight to perdition. Just fascinating, this business. les b David Love wrote: > > I think it's not so much that they hear the difference in pitch but > rather the change in the quality of the sound coming from their > instrument. I'm not that convinced that 440 -- 441 or 441 -- 442, or > even 440 -- 442 can be discerned by most pianists (or piano tuners for > that matter), but clearly violinists can tell the difference more by > how the instrument sounds with more tension. Similarly, woodwind > players can tell the difference by both the change in tone quality and > what needs to be done to their instruments change the pitch. Pitch > differences are more likely to be an issue with players of instruments > other than the piano. When you consider the instrument conditions > under which many pianists are forced to concertize, minor pitch > variations are probably the least of the problems. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090501/4ec18c49/attachment.html>
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