Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:37:54 -0500
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Subject: Re: Piano tuning
Regarding Tuesday’s post on piano tuning. I’ve encountered a lot of piano tuners in this area who use that consarned visual machine that proposes to accurately determine if the piano is in tune. I’m glad that your recommended tuner also uses his aural skills to back that up. Very important! Otherwise, the tuner becomes so entrenched in the belief that a machine knows better than the human ear does. Scarey! The human ear is still more sensitive than any machine.
My question, though, is: how accurately does your tuner tune the uppermost 1.5 octaves of the piano? I’ve encountered at least one other tuner who does a great job throughout the keyboard yet neglects the top 1.5 octaves….because his ear isn’t sensitive enough re those extraordinarily higher notes. When I hear the tuner pound away incessantly on those tones, I know he doesn’t hear them…else he wouldn’t pound. He’d instead play them gently, thus getting a better assessment of their pitch accuracy.
Elliott – How accurate are those 1.5 octaves?
– Maryphyllis
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:24:46 -0500
From: “Elliot M. Cramer”
Subject: artistic piano tuning
Artistic Piano Tuning
http://www.artisticpianotuning.com/
He’s great and very reasonably priced