<!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 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Last week I tuned a 1980s S&S M for = a new client. He just moved down here from Manhattan. He has always had = "Steinway" technicians service his piano. He "warned" me that he has had arguments = about whether some notes were "in tune" with technicians in the = past.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I raised the pitch 25 cents to A440 and = tuned it to the "Representative Victorian" temperament on my Verituner. He sat down = and banged out a movement from the Appassionata while I packed up my = tools (and watched in amazement and awe). After he was done, he said "piano is = perfect - never sounded so good". I'm not really sure if my tuning was that good = (the piano did tune up well - I was unusually happy with it), if he just = liked the temperament, or if his past service personnel were sub-par.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FWIW, I pretty much only tune in = ET on request - and that is only a very few pianos.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Richard Brekne" <</FONT><A href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: "Pianotech" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face=Arial size=2>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial = size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:18 PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Re: for your (radical turn)</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT = face=Arial size=2>> I can echo Ed here...      yet I = still struggle with an unbeleivalbe <BR>> apathy I find amoung so many of = the pianists around here. Their <BR>> reactions to HT's,  when they = react at all... are always as Ed describes <BR>> below.... but getting them to = actually DO something with this new <BR>> <<toy>> is = another matter. <BR>> <BR>> I have one Professor who insists on having his = Young Chang piano tuned <BR>> to a milde well... but only because its never = sounded good in ET... but <BR>> this same guy doesnt want to work up a = program based on HT's... nor <BR>> spend any time exposing his students to the potential.<BR>> <BR>> I just know that sooner or later something = will spark and the ball will <BR>> get rolling... but the basic GAFFER = attitude I find amoung young <BR>> pianists and faculty at the University level sometimes astounds me.  <BR>> They have their ciriculum... and = thats what life is about..  .<BR>> <BR>> Nice turn tho Ed<BR>> = <BR>> RicB<BR>> <BR>> </FONT><A href="mailto:A440A@aol.com"><FONT = face=Arial size=2>A440A@aol.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> = wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >Bill writes: <BR>> ><< Now what was the subject, = temperaments? <G> >><BR>> ><BR>> >Humm, now that you mention it....  <BR>> >    I had a new customer call = me to tune a Steinway M yesterday.  Said that <BR>> >he had decided = to sell it and wanted it to sound its best.  Told me to do <BR>> = >whatever I thought would make it most attractive. So,  I tuned it in a = Broadwood. <BR>> >He sat down and played it.  His wife (also a musician = and songwriter), came <BR>> >downstairs and stood there.  Hint of = rapture in the air...<BR>> >    After a piece or two, he = looked up and said, at the same time his wife <BR>> >did, "This piano has = never sounded this good!" Not sure they want to part with <BR>> >it, = now.  <BR>> >    Last week, a studio owner also had me = tune, but asked to return to ET for <BR>> >an overdub session that was going = in E maj.  He told me that since he had <BR>> >become used to the = Coleman 11, the piano just sounds out of tune to him in ET and <BR>> = >wants to return to WT as soon as possible.  <BR>> >   Like I = said last century,  this stuff will just not go away!  Politicians = <BR>> >will, but not the WTT's  (well-tempered tuners).  <BR>> = >Regards, <BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> >  = <BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> = _______________________________________________<BR>> pianotech list info: </FONT><A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"><FONT = face=Arial size=2>https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</FONT></A><BR><FON= T face=Arial size=2>> </FONT></BODY></HTML>