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<br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Ron Koval wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Even though the bulk of many of our days may be filled with "grunt tunings" it is always<br>a good thing (if only for ourselves!) to strive for the best, be it machine, ears, or technique.</span></blockquote>A good and crucial thing, ESPECIALLY for ourselves; and the hard, inescapable reality definitely exists:</div><div>if you can tune a piano better---way better---than the other guys, you win, both externally (more money, more work, more respect, MUCH better pianos) and internally (you constantly see and perceive yourself as a pure professional, an artisan)<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><br>Not suggesting that you give away time for free, just wondering if it is possible to get better<br>results in the same amount of time? </span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div>You can. I can tune a big piano for a concert in 1.5 hours. It's musical, soaring, and stable. The artist wins, the venue wins, and I win. Big. Here's the best part----SO CAN YOU.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Read my article in the December Journal, and then come to my tuning class in Anaheim. If you've tuned 5000 or so pianos, you have absolutely everything you need to be a world-class tuner. It's all stored in your body.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>David Andersen</div></body></html>