Except that the exam is not scored on "pleasing". It is scored on objective criteria the foundations of which are laid down electronically. If pleasing were the criteria for passing the exam then we would expect to see no deductions for musical sounding well temperaments or octave stretching which exceeds the exam protocols which many will say are much more conservative than they use in real life. ------Original Message------ From: Mark Dierauf Sender: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org To: pianotech at ptg.org ReplyTo: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] CTE's - what are you thoughts? (continuation of Re: Old can of worms) Sent: May 12, 2012 11:41 AM Bingo! What he said! - Mark On 5/12/2012 11:19 AM, Kent Swafford wrote: > > > Pianos are tuned for the benefit of music, an aural art. Regardless of > the methods used to accomplish a finely tuned piano, the results are, > in the end, expected to be _aurally_ pleasing. Perhaps the current > exam reflects that simple fact. > > > Kent David Love www.davidlovepianos.com (sent from bb)
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