<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Willem Blees wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">So why does tuning the piano, not just a regular ET tuning, but also a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">historical tuning, make the piano feel different?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Late yesterday I tuned a new, out-of-the-crate console, that before tuning sounded muffled and felt heavy. Not much fun to play on. After tuning, it is a warm, rich, focused instrument, and, if I didn't know better, I"d swear 10 grams lighter. All of a sudden I didn't want to get up from the piano. It is an amazing phenomenon.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>When the tuning is dirty, the music and the player are at the mercy of the noises being produced, so there is a loss of control. I think that when the tuning is under control, the pianist feels more in control and free to be more musical. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Even children will feel a difference.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It makes me wonder how composers could be continually inspired to compose when the fortepiano they were composing on would go out of tune during the day.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff T</DIV></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>