<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Billbrpt@AOL.COM = href="mailto:Billbrpt@AOL.COM">Billbrpt@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 05, 2002 = 9:35 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: etd tunings</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a = message dated 6/5/02 8:07:03 AM Central Daylight Time, <A href="mailto:lesbart1@juno.com">lesbart1@juno.com</A> (Leslie W = Bartlett) writes: <BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">So, two passes, from 100 cents out, and he says it = should last, on most <BR>pianos, a year. <BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial = color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">>> <<<BR><BR>If, on the one hand, = this fellow is such a high falootin' musically superior professional, what the = heck is he doing trying to tune a piano which is 1/2 step low?  That is a *seriously* substandard state for a piano to be found in.  The = first question I'd be asking is *why* is it so low?  Someone mentioned = that raising the pitch 100 cents would add about a ton or so. =  Actually, it is more like 4 tons!  Who in his right mind could ever claim that he = just went in and *hot dogged* a piano up 100 cents and it stayed in tune = perfectly for an entire year?  Sheeesh! <BR><BR>I haven't seen one opinion = yet that says this is possible.  The consensus seem to be that this is a = highly inflated claim. <BR><BR>Bill Bremmer RPT <BR>Madison, Wisconsin <BR><A = href="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b = r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Wait a minute ... whose piano are we talking = about?  The musician/technician's or that belonging to some customer of = his?  How often does this technician "visit" this customer to verify how well = the piano is doing?  Or is he going by the word of the customer who feels = that the piano is still in its "improved" state after such a pitch = raise?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Whaddya-wanna bet this technician is working under = very tight time/budgetary constraints and is trying to keep the appointment = as short as possible ... and the customer wants him to promise that the = piano will stay in tune for a year or more?  Or how often does this = technician hear "but the piano still sounds fine!" when he calls to set up a = follow-up appointment?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Is this technician regularly in contact with other = technicians or is he at the mercy of the opinions of his customers?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>We all know that a piano is never "perfectly in = tune" and even in the most ideal situations, should have its share of touch-ups = to keep the intervals combed out and the unisons locked in.  Many of us = on this list have worked with many top-notch musicians who are reputed to be = "very fussy" only to be "out-fussed" by one (or more) of = us.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Z! Reinhardt  RPT<BR>Ann Arbor  MI<BR><A = = href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">diskladame@provide.net</A></FONT><= /FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>