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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Yes Jeff even children, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This seems the best place to tag on my
subjective little story to this important thread. My piano teacher (one of
several but the best one I ever had) was a local gran dame of Swiss origin who
taught other local boys like Willard Martin and Keith Jarrett and used to spout,
among other chestnuts, to us on a semi-regular basis, that "the life of the
piano is in its tuning." I appreciate that more everyday and even use
it regularly in my spiel to my customers, along with some Guild
literature, a few less subjective threats and a couple of curried
enticements.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It feels different because it is
different.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris Solliday</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jtanner@mozart.sc.edu href="mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu">Jeff
Tanner</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] why does it feel
better?</DIV>
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<DIV>On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Willem Blees wrote:</DIV><BR
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Even children will feel a difference.</DIV>
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<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.
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<DIV>Jeff T</DIV></DIV><BR><BR>
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<DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV>
<DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV>
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