Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)

[Farrell]

> The question becomes, shall I tune a Moore for the *next* customer without
> even raising the issue of WTs?

Sure! Why not? I do.

(flame suit on)
Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Kanter" <jkanter@rollingball.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)


> I agree that the Moore would be a good candidate (also the Wendell Lite) ...
> but in this case I am ethically bound to stick with a strict ET until I can
> give him a demo.
> 
> Or else maybe I can do such a dynamite job on the next piano (he's asked me
> to tune the dining room piano at the resort, and says he will have me tune
> his Yamaha grand just before he records his next CD) ... that I can ask
> again, show him the gentle charts, and promise to retune it in ET for free
> if he doesn't like the Moore. But he was SO uncomfortable that I feel right
> now that I should stay away from the issue.
> 
> I do not feel comfortable tuning a Moore without telling him.
> 
> The question becomes, shall I tune a Moore for the *next* customer without
> even raising the issue of WTs?
> 
> From: Erwinspiano@AOL.COM
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:37:24 EDT
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> jkanter@rollingball.com writes:
> 
> 
> Subj:Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)
> Date:8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time
> From:jkanter@rollingball.com
> Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org
> To:pianotech@ptg.org
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> 
>       Jason
> 
> 
>            Try the moore victorian. It has enough flavor for key colorations
> similar but distant enough fom e.t. to make it interesting. I'll bet he'd
> like this a good deal more and in fact if he thought it was e.t. and didn't
> know in advance it might be the best E.T. he's ever heard. Know what I mean?
>    Dale Erwin
> 
> 
> Personally I am very intrigued and excited by the sound and feel of WTs. I
> purchased the "6 degrees" CD and was very moved by it.
> 
> As I have mentioned in the past, I am just starting to tune again after a
> lapse of years, and as I am a fulltime training manager at a bank, I only
> have a little time to do it. I have a summer place on Orcas Island in the
> San Juans, and have struck up a friendship with a pianist/performer who has
> several of his own CDs out and plays regularly at the Rosario Resort. I have
> been trying to get him interested in historic temperaments, because I
> believe his style of music (tapestries of sound largely in the natural keys)
> will benefit from a gentle WT.
> 
> He recently hired me to tune the 1900 Steinway in this resort's performance
> hall. A week before the tuning, I lent him the "Six Degrees" CD and asked
> him to listen to it and then tell me what he thought. (Of course, I expected
> him to like what he heard.) But his reaction was quite different. It made
> him shudder. He found it weird, strange, uncomfortable, and he earnestly
> asked me to just tune the piano with a normal ET.
> 
> So I promised not to mention it again (he visibly relaxed) ... but I said
> that I will one day tune a piano on the island in one of these temperaments
> that I think he will like, and I will arrange for him to come play it for an
> hour. 
> 
> He loved the ET I did; commented to me that he is lingering longer on chords
> as he enjoys the harmonics.
> 
> My take-away from this experience is that the Six Degrees CD is too extreme
> to use as a "lure" to WT. Maybe the choice of the Mozart Fantasie is too
> brooding, and its repetition three times in three different temperaments is
> too much. Not sure. But I won't use *that* again.
> 
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