Dear list------
Ah, the tuning debates!!
"Endless are the arguments of mages....."
Ursula LeGuin
I tune for myself; to challenge myself. I think my ears are as good as
any pair of ears in the world, and I have tuned thousands of pianos to
get to the point where my tuning----which is some form of mutated
ET----satisfies me a good deal of the time---maybe 80%----and satisfies
the many, many fantastic players and singers and producers I work for
99.9% of the time.
If the fourths all roll slowly, pretty much equally, the piano will sound
just great; it will be "automatically"
stretched to sound musical, resonant, and soaring----when recorded, it
will sound like the pianos on the great recordings of the '30's and
'40's----extremely sweet and musical.
The mechanics of a great tuning are dead simple; the massive challenge is
in having the skill, and patience, and commitment, to do it over and over
and give it your best shot every time.
It's a deep, deep craft.
Cheers, kids.........your ears are part of the greatest computer ever
built.
David Andersen
Malibu, CA
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