<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">David,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I had a customer back in Seattle who
had me out to tune her piano once. It hadn't been tuned in years,
but was one of those pianos that went nicely uniformly flat so it sounded
fairly decent. After explaining pitch raising and diving into the
project, she stopped me and said, "that A now sounds like a B-flat!
I can't handle it! Please put it back!!" Her "perfect
pitch" was exactly a half-step off. Interesting what one's brain
will do to you. From then on, I just tuned her piano a half-step
flat and she could name any note on the piano and loved the tunings.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ya never know in this business!</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I had a customer a few days ago, whose piano I tuned
2 years ago. She played some notes and said how flat they were...the
piano in general sounded reasonable. I got started and the piano
was indeed about 4 cents flat and 7 in the treble. When done I asked
her if she had perfect pitch...wasn't sure. I played a D and she
said that sounded like a D...pretty cool...<br>
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David Ilvedson, RPT<br>
Pacifica, CA 94044<br>
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From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb@pianostemmer.no><br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Received: 6/29/2008 9:57:47 AM<br>
Subject: Wives tales ... violin tuning<br>
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>As long as we are daddling around the subject matter... I just came
back <br>
>from a concert tuning where the violinist asked me what pitch I tuned
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>at... I said 442, which is the norm here... and asked her where she
set <br>
>her violin pitch wise. 442 was the response in a rather harse reply.
I <br>
>said back.. really... many violinists end up a bit higher then the
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>piano... would you like to check with my ETD ? She was at 445.
Perfect <br>
>pitch and all that you understand... a few tense moments there whilst
I <br>
>explained my ETD was calibrated to the Universal Clock in New Mexico...
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>or where ever that is and besides... I had three pitch forks with me
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>that all showed the same thing.<br>
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>Cheers<br>
>RicB<br>
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> Fortuntely atleast one violinist i heard
so far tunes in ET and<br>
> not that crappy pure 5ths... I thought
my significant other to<br>
> tune his violin in ET, after a year of
struggle he keeps<br>
> thanking me.. says the sound vinally stopped
"slicing" his ears<br>
> and sounds in warm harmony... From associating
with them...<br>
> violinists not only tend to think strangely
bout their own<br>
> instruments.. but worse. rat down on pianos...
I was told by him<br>
> that while he was studying, his professors
always said "pianos<br>
> are never in tune"... and some worse
things...<br>
> <br>
> Sorry to change the subject, i thought
id mention ET.<br>
> <br>
> Alicia> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:56:17
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> From: ricb at pianostemmer.no><br>
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> "Sadly, it's often pianists themselves.">
> Violinists and<br>
> Bureaucratic Cultural Pamps are also very high on that
list.> ><br>
> RicB> > > ><br>
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