<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: JIV-jumping into voicing</title></head><body> <div>Dave and Dale,</div> <div><br></div> <div>What you describe of the LA scene is similar here in Sydney. Most technicians are of the tune-and-run variety. In recent years some of us have been trying to turn this around through technician classes, but it remains an uphill task.</div> <div><br></div> <div>The task can be made even more difficult when high end professional pianists are so used to hearing screaming concert pianos, they'll complain if they play a piano which has been voiced at all to reduce the attack. Furthermore, many senior concert pianists, who are regarded by many as the arbiters of good tune, have ears which have turned to cloth after a lifetime of practice and performance.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote>At 9:38 AM -0800 13/11/05, David Andersen wrote:</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="+1">. . .</font><font face="Verdana"> In 25 years of working on pianos in LA, with the last 10 or so years mostly dedicated to good and expensive grand pianos, the number of pianos that had been maintained in any realm beyond tuning before I came on them was, and is, miniscule....1 or 2 percent, literally.  What a joke.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana">And a tragedy, really, for our profession.  All this talk, endless talk, about pianos, and service, and how to do this and that with pianos, and then the harsh reality:  almost nobody's actually doing it in good grand pianos in LA. Why?  Because "tune & run"  is the easy money. A no-brainer.  The average guy here charges $100-120.  Do six tune-and-runs a day, and you're living large.  Do it five days a week, and it's<b> 3 grand</b> a week, and baby's got a new pair o' shoes.<br> <br> On the other hand, just shoot me now if that's what I have to look forward to: average clients, piano after piano in bad mechanical and tonal shape, and propagating the paradigm of "I don't give a rat's ass, so why should my clients?  Why should I educate them about tone and touch when it'll just slow me down, make me work and acquire new skills, work new muscles, and (the final nail in the coffin:)<br> 'anyway, none of my clients care or can hear or feel the difference.'"<br> <br> What a crock of s**t.  Everybody can hear and feel the difference, including, first and foremost, YOU.<br> <br> Don't be a sellout.  Learn how t work on pianos past the tuning, and quit telling your self destuctive things, like nobody can hear or feel the difference....quit being so dang negative.<br> <br> End of rant.  Thank you.<br> <br> David Andersen</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY</b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><i>   </i></font><font color="#0000FF"><i>Grand Piano Manufacturers</i></font><font color="#000000"><br> _______________________</font></div> <div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br> </font><font color="#000000">Web http://overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">mailto:ron@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>