Dear pianotech folks, I'm not a pianotech but a friend put me on your list where I have been lurking for a few days, enjoying the conversation. I wonder if someone can connect me with a pianotech person, I think from Berkeley, who was featured in a PBS story a few months back. This guy takes a string machine to Cuba and goes around putting pianos back into service. I gather that the tropical climate is hard on the strings. I'm interested because I encountered similar problems when I visited Haiti last year. I'm a harper myself, not even a pedal harpist but a diatonic style folk harpist. I'm personally stuck on natural tuning (God's temperment, no temperment?) for the harp. I can "resonate" with the discussion of guitar temperment, it seems correct to me that a fretted instrument could be improved by tweaking it in the direction of the intended key. For that matter, I have wondered whether a fully chromatic instrument like the piano could be tweaked in "real time" as the musician was playing it, as the central tonality or key might shift about. Maybe this is a topic fo you experts to chew on. Well, as you chew on, I will probably unsubscribe soon with no further remarks, because like so many folks I'm already spending too much time in cyberspace. Oh, yes, please, if you can identify the Cuba pianotech, please plink me privately. THANKS A MILLION! John Lozier harper for harmony
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