Fred, Thanks Fred for clarifying. Tim On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Fred Sturm wrote: > On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:27 PM, tcoates1 at sio.midco.net wrote: > >> I read the quote below to my wife and neither one of us understand >> it. My father was a minister and one of my best friends is a >> minister. I must not be tuning the right pianos because I don't >> consider myself even close to the type of decisions they make. I >> really am in awe of piano techs whose tunings truly have moral >> implications. > > Hi TIm, > I think the point is that, for the obsessed, rather silly piano > technicians, those decisions about where to place some individual > note become so important as to become "moral" decisions. It's a poke > at how seriously we take our work, when it really doesn't have > anywhere near that level of importance. Though from the heat and > passion generated in some of the discussions, we certainly give the > impression of talking about life and death issues. > It's a joke, okay? Poking fun at ourselves and what we do, and our > attitude toward it. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > fssturm at unm.edu > > > >
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