<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:)</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>I agree that the Moore would be a good candidate (also the Wend= ell Lite) ... but in this case I am ethically bound to stick with a strict E= T until I can give him a demo. Or else maybe I can do such a dynamite job on the next piano (he's asked me= to tune the dining room piano at the resort, and says he will have me tune = his Yamaha grand just before he records his next CD) ... that I can ask agai= n, show him the gentle charts, and promise to retune it in ET for free if he= doesn't like the Moore. But he was SO uncomfortable that I feel right now t= hat I should stay away from the issue. I do not feel comfortable tuning a Moore without telling him. The question becomes, shall I tune a Moore for the *next* customer without = even raising the issue of WTs? From: Erwinspiano@AOL.COM Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:37:24 EDT To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:) </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>In a message dat= ed 8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jkanter@rollingball.com write= s: <BLOCKQUOTE>Subj:Selling WT (was Temp. comparisons:) Date:8/26/2002 7:45:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time From:jkanter@rollingball.com Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org To:pianotech@ptg.org Sent from the Internet </BLOCKQUOTE>      Jason       &n= bsp;   Try the moore victorian. It has enough flavor for key = colorations similar but distant enough fom e.t. to make it interesting. I'll= bet he'd like this a good deal more and in fact if he thought it was e.t. a= nd didn't know in advance it might be the best E.T. he's ever heard. Know wh= at I mean?    Dale Erwin <BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>Personally I am= very intrigued and excited by the sound and feel of WTs. I purchased the &q= uot;6 degrees" CD and was very moved by it. As I have mentioned in the past, I am just starting to tune again after a l= apse of years, and as I am a fulltime training manager at a bank, I only hav= e a little time to do it. I have a summer place on Orcas Island in the San J= uans, and have struck up a friendship with a pianist/performer who has sever= al of his own CDs out and plays regularly at the Rosario Resort. I have been= trying to get him interested in historic temperaments, because I believe hi= s style of music (tapestries of sound largely in the natural keys) will bene= fit from a gentle WT. He recently hired me to tune the 1900 Steinway in this resort's performance= hall. A week before the tuning, I lent him the "Six Degrees" CD a= nd asked him to listen to it and then tell me what he thought. (Of course, I= expected him to like what he heard.) But his reaction was quite different. = It made him shudder. He found it weird, strange, uncomfortable, and he earne= stly asked me to just tune the piano with a normal ET. So I promised not to mention it again (he visibly relaxed) ... but I said t= hat I will one day tune a piano on the island in one of these temperaments t= hat I think he will like, and I will arrange for him to come play it for an = hour. He loved the ET I did; commented to me that he is lingering longer on chord= s as he enjoys the harmonics. My take-away from this experience is that the Six Degrees CD is too extreme= to use as a "lure" to WT. Maybe the choice of the Mozart Fantasie= is too brooding, and its repetition three times in three different temperam= ents is too much. Not sure. But I won't use *that* again. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE>|= | ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>