Tuning for violinists

[James Grebe]

String players are always trying to be in tune as to overly sharpen their
expectations of pitch.  Sharp is always their byword.
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
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Arnold, MO 63010
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Teplitski" <koko99@shaw.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning for violinists


> 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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