Question for tuner/techs who play.

[gordon stelter]

Since I tune ET, a piece with a complex chord in
chromatic ascension shows nicely if everything is in
order. These 20th century compositions were written
only because ET was used. They would have sonded like
crap in other temperaments.  ( Gershwin and such. ) 
    The introduction to "The Doll Dance" by Nacio Herb
Brown uses this motif, as well as Erno Rapee's waltz
"Diane" ( From "Seventh Heaven"-1927 and also used in
the "party Scene" from "Sunset Boulevard" )
    Thump

P.S. Then I play "Grace and Beauty" by James Scott,
just to make them feel bad for not cleaning the keys
before I arrived. 

--- Jim Kinnear <jim@pianoguy.com> wrote:

> Hey, what's wrong with being 'showy' . .  unless
> you've just tuned for Paderewski, and then you feel
> like a complete idiot !!!!
> 
> ps . .  I whip off a few Joplin tunes, and feel
> justifiably competant !
> 
> Jim Kinnear
> www.pianoguy.com
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John Delmore 
>   To: pianotech@ptg.org 
>   Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:55 PM
>   Subject: Question for tuner/techs who play.
> 
> 
>   Hi all:
> 
>   I was wondering if some of the techs who play have
> any favorite pieces they play when finished a
> tuning, to see how things sound musically ?  I would
> think something that ranges over the keyboard fairly
> well, maybe plenty of octaves, but not something so
> showy as to intimidate the client (still want their
> opinion, right?).  What do you think? 
> 
>   John Delmore 
> 


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