Let's look at this from the customer's point of view, just for fun. I call somebody in to fix, say, a funny feel to the handling of my car. Brakes? steereing? shocks? I hope they find out. I get it back, and it seems better maybe a little but not really. But they obviously spent time at it & seem to have run out of ideas. So I say Yes it's better, thanks, and let them off the hook - maybe I'll let it get worse & try somebody else. So maybe we should try to pin down better what the ineffable problem is (or effinig problem) and actually deal with it. I know piano response is pretty subjective & it may be imaginary - Margaret -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner@mozart.sc.edu> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:27:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [CAUT] Gradually improving voicing On Monday, January 10, 2005, at 03:29 PM, michelle stranges wrote: > I've had some faculty memebers rave about the piano and other > (di)faculty members find *s*o*m*e*t*h*i*n*g they don't like about it. > Secretly I've ignored these ones and *pretend* I did something and > tell them I changed it to their liking. > Guess what? > They think it sounds WAAAYAYYYYYYYYYYYY better. > > Arms up-.... you know you've done this!!!!! (Placebo effect, eh?) > Ok, ok, you got me. But in this case it wasn't voicing. Just today I was asked by a visiting artist to just clean up the octaves. Do what? If the octaves have gone, the whole piano is gone. There's not time for that now. I touched up a few unisons. They'll love it. I think sometimes they like to talk just because they think they're supposed to sound smarter than everybody else. anon _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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