Tuning with a fork......Sanderson...

[Richard Moody]

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Joe,
    If you  produce a musician (oboist you say) who says their
instruments get weird outside of 2 cents deviation I will take a fresh
look (with them) at my premise that you completely disagree with.  I
know a few musicians but have never asked them if  2 cents or two cycles
per second is a big  deal and wonder if they know the difference.   We
ultimately work for the musicians.  If they really want to play to a
piano no more than one half a cycle  per second off, we should hear from
them and offer our services accordingly.  
    It is worth $100 for me to see if an oboist can indeed tune aurally
within 2 cents before concert and I would ask to see  how far off he or
she is off immediately after performance.    You gotta pay scale after
all.....  
    If we want to find out how much pitch floats during performance we
(piano tuners) have the machines to find out.   I am betting it is much
more than we think. And the piano floats the most.(Is my guess) I am
willing to put time into settling this issue once and for all.  But the
bottom line is who will fuss if the piano is 438.5 for performance nite?
Sometimes it happens.   Life goes on----the music sounds good...whether
at 438 or 442 and no matter what the oboist says. :)  How much do your
pianos for performance float? 
 
 ---ric 
 
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." 

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917); French sculptor. 

 

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Joe Garrett
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:45 AM
To: pianotech
Subject: Re: Tuning with a fork......Sanderson...


Richard Moody said: "So machine tuners adjust the machine, and aural
tuners go ahead for the touch up.  For some machine tuners 4 cents may
look like a lot.  But for musicians it is no problem"
 
Richard, Try telling that to an oboist!!!! Four (4) cents off is either
439 or 441. That's too far out for some instruments to play with. There
are a lot of instruments that get weird, outside of 2 cents deviation,
their natural harmonies/acoustics/timbre is messed with. I completely
disagree on you premise! 


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