This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Re: not what I signed up forDavid, And back at you.... Kansas City is a possibility. However I'm scheduled to be playing with a = major recording gig and I think that's going to conflict with that time. = Guess I need to check the calendar. Take care and say hi to Steve Edwards for me. Tom Servinsky ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Andersen=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: Re: not what I signed up for David Andersen wrote: Here's what I know: doing single-mute, aural, whole-tone, = open-string tuning has exponentially expanded my ear's ability to = remember piano tone, and made me a better voicer; it's made me a MUCH = better unison tuner, much more precise. David...Glad to hear that you are still benefiting from the single = mute tuning style. I still swear buy it as the most honest check & = balanced approach to the "whole" tuning.=20 Not that it only (seems) to yield a more true temperament, and not = only that it forces you to tune a better unison, but most importantly, = it forces you to listen on a higher plane. But I have found that I have to live in the real world with huge = time constraints and circumstances can't do this on every piano. Now I = use single-mute tuning in the same fashion I approach with a bottle of = fine red wine....only to be used for the SPECIAL occasions. The level = of satisfaction I get on those special instruments where I can relax and = enjoy the process brings joy like no other. I still have the SAT II in the case for some of the grind work I = have to pump out. And there have been times when I felt that the SAT II = tuning yielded as good of a tuning as the single-mute tuning. But having = the opportunity to listen to my work via recording takes I have been = involved with, the single-mute tuning runs circles around my best ETD = tuning. Tom Servinsky Thank you so much, Tom, for your inspiration and friendship; you are a = rock of craft and sanity on this list. And thank you for challenging me = to explore the single mute style; it has literally changed my life and = my ears, as you say so eloquently above. I hope to see you and spend some more time with you soon---Kansas = City, perhaps? David Andersen ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4f/44/88/74/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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