[pianotech] Respect

[David Love]

Do you mean they were imprinted, like engrams, unerasable, forever setting the standard by which they judge future tunings? Like a concert artist whose first lessons were on an out of tune Wurly spinet? I think it's a stretch.
David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com
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From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:11:50 
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] Respect

On 1/29/2011 9:23 AM, David Love wrote:
> All due respect Susan but how can you possibly tell whether the pianos in those recordings were tuned aurally or with etds and what if you're wrong? What does that then say about aural tuning? I think you are over reaching here, or should I say over stretching.

Of course I can't tell, though sometimes what is bothering me gives some 
hint.

Has anyone considered whether early exposure to the more primitive ETD 
tunings, either as a piano student in early youth, or as a beginning 
untrained tuner, may have changed what they consider "good" for 
placement of stretch between sections, for instance?

There were a lot of those tunings out there, and such qualities are 
learned, not innate.

Susan



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