<HTML>In a message dated 4/27/01 5:49:22 PM Central Daylight Time, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu (Conrad Hoffsommer) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Bill, At 09:38 04/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I know all too well what you are talking about.  The rebuilding questions >aside, the Steinway service manual's procedure for tuning is a recipe for >Reverse Well. I looked through my old Steinway service manual (~1980?), and all I find are regulation procedures, etc. - no tuning instructions.   I am curious as to what the NY tuning instructions are.    One of my mentors mentioned that he had gotten tuning advice while attending a NY factory seminar many moons ago. Could you give us the recipe? </BLOCKQUOTE> It was printed in the Journal several years ago.  I know who wrote it but I won't say because he is a friend and I respect him otherwise.  I think it was written and printed in the early '90's. The reason I say it is a "recipe for Reverse Well" is because it is lacking in sufficient detail to really effect a good ET.  Some of it is simply inaccurate.  As I recall it relied mostly on tuning 4ths and 5ths and was not very specific about Rapidly Beating Interval checks. Granted, a very skilled tuner can still do a good ET this way but most people will make the error of getting 5ths too pure or even on the wide side.  This will produce uneven 3rds, in a fast-slow-fast pattern (beginning with F3-A3), the reverse of a good, Well-Tempered tuning.  Somewhere along the way, things just don't quite work out but time's a wastin' and who'd know the difference anyway? To a person who is full of the company line of B.S., that is good enough.   It's ET if it was tuned aurally by a Steinway man, end of discussion.   Historical or other types of temperaments are not discussed *chez* Steinway because, as everyone already knows, "No artist ever asked for that" (and better not, either). Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>