close enough>??

[Don]

Hi Ed,

I have to disagree about the "second pass". Pianists are the worst judges
of tuning that you could find. I may not paint like Monet--and I do enjoy
his work--but I'm certainly not competant to judge it other than on the
basis of "I liked it" or "I didn't like it".

At 05:34 PM 1/21/2003 EST, you wrote:
>
>   Significant to who?   This was the point of my original post,  a second 
>pass on this piano would have not yielded any improvement, since the degree 
>of deviation was less than that caused by other factors.  Three trained, 
>professional sets of ears found nothing less than beauty, even when prodded 
>to critique.  So, how far could the tuning have profitiably been improved?? 
>    What I was saying is that there is a point of diminishing returns for
any 
>situation, and the tuner that doesn't recognize that is going to be wasting 
>time in pursuit of an idealized result that is impossible to attain, ie,  a 
>tuner that feels he has achieved total perfection is deluded because total 
>perfection is not possible on imperfect instruments.  That is not to excuse 
>faulty work, simply a reflection of reality.  It will offend those that
think 
>perfection is possible, but I haven't seen a perfect tuning yet,and I have 
>been at for 27 years in the most demanding enviroment I could find. (Not to 
>boast, but there are now approx. 180 million CD's out there with my work on 
>them and with the exception of two competing technicians, I haven't heard
any 
>complaints.  I offer that as some evidence of being "close enough"). 
> 
>Ed Foote RPT 
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
> 
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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