<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: not what I signed up for</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>David Anderse= n wrote: Here’s= what I know: doing single-mute, aural, whole-tone, open-string tuning has e= xponentially expanded my ear’s ability to remember piano tone, and made me a= better voicer; it’s made me a MUCH better unison tuner, much more precise.<= BR> David...Glad to hear that you are still benefiting from the single mute = tuning style. I still swear buy it as the most honest check & balanced a= pproach to the "whole" tuning. Not that it only (seems) to yield a more true temperament, and not only tha= t it forces you to tune a better unison, but most importantly, it forces you= to listen on a higher plane. But I have found that I have to live in the real world with huge time const= raints and circumstances can't do this on every piano. Now I use single-mute= tuning in the same fashion I approach with a bottle of fine red wine....onl= y to be used for the  SPECIAL occasions. The level of satisfact= ion I get on those special instruments where I can relax and enjoy the proce= ss brings joy like no other. I still have the SAT II in the case for some of the grind work I have to pu= mp out. And there have been times when I felt that the SAT II tuning yielded= as good of a tuning as the single-mute tuning. But having the opportunity t= o listen to my work via recording takes I have been involved with,  the= single-mute tuning runs circles around my best ETD tuning. Tom Servinsky </BLOCKQUOTE> Thank you so much, Tom, for your inspiration and friendship; you are a rock= of craft and sanity on this list. And thank you for challenging me to explo= re the single mute style; it has literally changed my life and my ears, as y= ou say so eloquently above. I hope to see you and spend some more time with you soon---Kansas City, per= haps? David Andersen </BODY> </HTML>