<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Wolfley, Eric ((wolfleel)) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="blue" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">I found out this morning that the piece they are doing is “On The Transmigration of Souls” which</SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Adams</SPAN></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> wrote for the NY Philharmonic after the 9/11 attacks. Premiered Sept., 2002.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Does anybody have any insight into just exactly WHY John Adams thought the pitch needed to be 1/4 step sharp?</DIV><DIV>Me thinks that would put unnecessary risk to the stringed instruments as well. And wouldn't you just about have to have wind instruments custom made to tune that sharp?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1200FF" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I just pulled the piano up 50 cents with no protests or breakage. I wore eye protection.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1200FF" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'd have probably worn some kind of helmet too, and hoped somebody saw me and realized how silly it was to put a piano tuner in that kind of danger just because a composer thought it might be cute to tune everything up a 1/4 step.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1200FF" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I’ve never tuned a piano this sharp before, but so far - so good.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1200FF" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV>Anybody calculated what the new tension would be on that piano?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>