Meantone Wurlitzer

[Avery Todd]

Hi Phil,

    Hmm. The dealer I do work for using the "Moonlight" as one of his
'demo' pieces. I may try that the next time I do there. :-)
    As an aside, I did the Steve Fairchild temperament once when I
was there working and it sold before I got back in to town to retune
it. :-)

Avery

At 03:40 PM 09/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I finally took the plunge.
>
>Did some floor tunings yesterday and nominated a new Wurlizer Grand(C-153)
>to be my first victim in experimenting with HT's.
>
>I used the chart in the back of the Sanderson Book as my guide.
>
>After I was done, I asked one of the owners(who plays ok) to play
>something..I couldn't be objective enough to make a sound opinion of my own
>tuning..I asked her to play anything from Beethoven..she went right into
>Moonlight Sonata......she wasn't sure what she was hearing, but she liked
>it..when she asked me what I did, I went into a breif explaination of
>HT's..she never knew they existed and didn't really know what "Well-Tempered
>Clavier" meant until yesterday.
>
>For a floor tuning, it took me awhile, as it does anything I do for the
>first time in this business..but the result was ok.
>
>Rook
>
>