Atonal Piano Service

Rob Kiddell really believes that 12edo is
the best tuning for a piano

http://www.atonal.ca/index.html

here's a quote:

>> Tuning is the most common service that pianos
>> receive. It is a procedure of changing the
>> tension of the piano strings so that they are
>> in pitch to a given reference frequency (usually
>> setting A4, the fifth A from the bottom of an
>> 88 note keyboard to 440 Hz, or cycles per second),
>> and adjusting the remaining notes on the piano to
>> conform to a *harmonically pleasing* twelve tone
>> scale of half-steps.

[emphasis mine]

... but i wonder how much his sense of humor had to
do with coming up with the name of his business.

-monz

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:

/metatuning/topicId_4216.html#4216

> Rob Kiddell really believes that 12edo is
> the best tuning for a piano
>
> http://www.atonal.ca/index.html
>
> here's a quote:
>
> >> Tuning is the most common service that pianos
> >> receive. It is a procedure of changing the
> >> tension of the piano strings so that they are
> >> in pitch to a given reference frequency (usually
> >> setting A4, the fifth A from the bottom of an
> >> 88 note keyboard to 440 Hz, or cycles per second),
> >> and adjusting the remaining notes on the piano to
> >> conform to a *harmonically pleasing* twelve tone
> >> scale of half-steps.
>
>
> [emphasis mine]
>
>
> ... but i wonder how much his sense of humor had to
> do with coming up with the name of his business.
>
>

***I believe my current piano tuning technique would also fall well
into this category...

J. Pehrson