ET..phone home

[Avery Todd]

At 07:02 AM 02/23/02 -0500, you wrote:
>At 09:10 PM 2/22/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>>Jon,
>>If you hadn't told her, she'd probably have never known the difference.
>>I have a Coleman 11 in one of my voice teacher's studio and as far as
>>I know, she's had no complaints. The same in a practice room with
>>Broadwood's Best.
>>
>>Avery
>>
>>At 05:28 PM 02/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>>I offered a Moore Well Temperament to a vocalist who is more in the 
>>>operatic vein.
>>>I set the temperament and asked her to listen.  She said that is sounded 
>>>metallic and wanted ET. No problem.
>
>
>Avery,
>I'd rather give her the option with only the temperament set rather than 
>chance retuning the whole piano. And I would not spring it on someone 
>unknowingly after years and years of tuning their piano in my best attempt 
>at ET.
>
>As far as most people are concerned, there is only one way to tune a 
>piano. I like to offer them a variety but not force it on them.

I understand what you're saying and I guess I didn't really think through
what I said very well. In my situation, it's not a big problem to retune,
plus these temperaments are pretty mild. More so than the Young, I believe.

Sorry if I misrepresented what I thought I said! :-)

Avery

>Regards,
>
>Jon Page,   piano technician
>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
>mailto:jonpage@attbi.com