Stretching the Treble

[Alan Barnard]

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I don't mean this to sound snotty, Robin, but I'm glad you're not MY tuner. 

I'm not opposed to ETD tunings, I also tune this way, mostly. I AM opposed to the notion that learning aural is no longer necessary. 

Picasso painted all kinds of strange stuff and experimented endlessly. People like it. He was thoroughly grounded in classical painting, drawing, perspective, etc., before he took off into the land of new art, etc. Now we have "artists," many in colleges, who cannot draw or paint anything in the classical sense, but create "art" with garbage, human body parts, and random globs of whatever. Effete snobs call it art, most folks call it crap.

All art is based on foundations from past masters. All art.

If this craft is not art, it is just wholesale "good enough"— and don't complain when the customer treats you like "the help." 

I can't work that way, and I don't. If I can't make that Winter & Sons sound like a Steinway & Sons, I can at least make it sound like the best Winter & Sons it can possibly be on that day.

It's my get-rich-slow scheme.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Robin Stevens 
To: Pianotech
Sent: 07/24/2005 9:44:14 PM 
Subject: Re: Stretching the Treble


 Unfortunately Susan...There are some of us that have to do the best and fastest job with the least wear and tear on our hearing and health..unlike the dreamers that think that an aural tuning is a mystical work of art!

Robin Stevens
30 years aural and 15 years ETD



-------Original Message-------

From: Pianotech
Date: 07/24/05 15:48:26
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Stretching the Treble

At 05:12 PM 7/23/2005 +0930, you wrote:
>Mark...Do yourself a favour and give up "Horse and cart" piano tuning, and
>buy a recognized ETD.

Horses are lovely animals, and require no fossil fuels. You can even grow a
garden by composting what comes out the rear end. The Amish still manage
just fine moving around in their carts. They have time to see the scenery
and smell the flowers. Pianos are sort of throw-back gadgets, as well, and
you don't need to plug them in.

Why do we need to be in such a blinking hurry, anyway?

Susan Kline

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