[CAUT] using as ETD

[David Love]

Since you tune aurally and are making adjustments through the break to find
the best compromise I wouldn't expect that you'd have complaints there.  I
wasn't necessarily referring to the bass tenor break in that sentence anyway
and was referring to problems with pure machine tuning.  The tuning of
octaves by machine can sometimes drift off in a various places (near the
struts as well as the bass tenor break seem to be the most likely places as
well as the low and high extremes) and will need to be corrected or at least
monitored for continuity.  I find customers are sensitive to unisons first
and then octaves, rarely other intervals including temperament.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan
Kline
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:48 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD

At 07:22 PM 4/16/2010, you wrote:
>but because I found that no matter what I used I needed to keep a 
>careful ear to what was going on in order to make those corrections 
>that invariably are picked out by the customer when you least expect it.

Come again? Your CUSTOMERS can hear the problems at the break??

Thirty years in the business -- I used to sometimes get the odd 
customer (well, maybe not so odd), who complained about the extreme 
bass, down in Octave 1. We'd explore a few notes down there, seeing 
which side of the ambiguity (cheap pianos) they preferred.  Hasn't 
happened for ten or fifteen years. NEVER one who complained about the 
break or the temperament. I've always considered customers clueless 
on the subject of temperaments, unable to hear the differences.

Do you just have smarter customers than I do?

Susan