---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 7/31/04 7:55:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, koko99@shaw.ca writes: > 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 Carl, The people I tuned for seemed to not comprehend, no matter how much I explained, the effects of severe environmental change--humidity primarily--on their instruments. In the case of the gentleman with the new Kawai upright, the fact that he had his piano near an oft-opened window and the fact that it was a new instrument that had just undergone a pitch lowering, he didn't understand why the piano was unstable. They are string players, and string players that have any ability must have good pitch. IMHO, these two chaps are either feeling cheated that their pianos can't be tuned to their satisfaction, or they are trying to prove that their ears are superior to those of the piano technicians that they have used. It's like David Nereson said, "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)." It's no big deal, just an occasionally frustrating part of this business. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c0/74/4f/c3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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