[CAUT] professor tuning variables

[Ed Sutton]

...and all this time I thought I was having fun...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Tanner" <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] professor tuning variables


> Hi Ric,
> We already know "a bit about UET and a bit of relevant music history." 
> But neither we nor anyone else on the planet know enough about the two to 
> make a claim that we are the experts in putting the two together. It isn't 
> "a bit" we will be expected to know.  If we bring it up, then we'll be 
> expected to push it farther. The point is that I can foresee having a very 
> few, if more than one or two clients - probably composers - who will want 
> you to learn every doggone temperament in the book and then decide to make 
> up a few of his own.  And it will be up to us to spend hours and hours of 
> time researching and practicing various temperaments for one person 
> instead of working on the verticals in the practice rooms or finally 
> getting that grand restrung that's been sitting in the shop for 6 months, 
> with 17 more in line after it.
>
> And while someone mentioned that we should charge extra for that sort of 
> thing, you have to bear in mind it will probably be the salaried staff 
> tech who can't change his income that will bear the brunt of most of that.
>
> Slippery slope thing.
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] professor tuning variables
>
>
>> While I agree in principle that one can spread oneself to thin.... I 
>> hardly see that learning a bit about UET and a bit of relevant music 
>> history is tantamount to stretching oneself too thin. Its just not that 
>> much work.  I have no problem with anyone simply not being interested 
>> themselves. But lets not try and justify a clear and simple matter of 
>> preference with attempts at objective reasoning justify these.  Hey... 
>> its cool to just say "UET's are not my bag"
>>
>> Cheers
>> RicB
>>
>>
>>
>>    Jeff,
>>
>>    I agree with what  you said. There are too many times when a
>>    technician wants to delve into so many different things that,
>>    instead of being able to perfect the skills that are needed, they
>>    can compromise these skills by being a jack of all trades. While I
>>    fine nothing wrong with wanting to broaden one's horizons, you can
>>    get to a point of diminishing a needed skill in one area just for
>>    the sake of saying that you can now do something else that you never
>>    did before and in the long run it does not amount to a hill of
>>    beans. If you and many others are like me, you have a tough time
>>    trying to keep things as good as they should and need to be let
>>    alone trying to go after something that you might use once in your
>>    life if even then.
>>
>>    God bless
>>
>>    Bill Balmer, RPT
>>    Ohio Northern University and the University of Findlay
>>
>>
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