Tuning for violinists

[Carl Teplitski]

Can you elaborate as to what the differences are re. tuning for a violinist.
I have not run into anyone who questioned me about it.

Carl / Winnipeg



Dave Nereson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Piannaman@aol.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:21 PM
> Subject: Tuning for violinists
>
> > Hello tuners, tooners, and tunas,
> >
> > I don't know about the resta y'all, but I'm beginning to get a distaste
> for
> > tuning pianos for violinists.  A couple of recent jobs have kind of soured
> me
> > to the process of trying to get piano tuning to fit into a string player's
> idea
> > of perfection....:-(
>   > Thanks for reading,
> > Dave Stahl
> >
>
>         Unless they're Sarah Chang or Itzahk Perlman or somebody, just tune
> it like you'd tune for anybody else.   When they play with any other
> piano -- at the school, the recital hall, their teacher's studio,
> whatever -- they have to accept the tuning that's on that particular piano.
> And if it's reasonably in tune, they DO accept it 'cause they have to, and
> it sounds fine and everybody's happy, because after all, they're NOT
> Paganini and NOT in Carnegie Hall.  It's probably only at home where they
> realize they have some say in how the piano's tuned that they get the prima
> donna complex and decide that they have some innate ability to discern how
> much the octaves were stretched or what kind of temperament was used (if
> they even know there are different kinds).
>     If the hammers are chewed up and it needs regulating and they have no
> humidity control, tell them you can get it to sound only so good until these
> other problems are taken care of.  I have to tell lots of customers that
> tuning alone does not fix all ills and like any other instrument, except
> maybe an ocarina, from time to time pianos need other maintenance than just
> tuning.
>           --David Nereson, RPT
>
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