A dialog is always desirable between the technician and performer but too often lacking.  Perhaps the player is always satisfied, so they feel no need. Perhaps there is difficulty in communication, so dialog is futile.  Perhaps it is a practical problem, the performer simply cannot be there when tuner has been scheduled. 

  The technician is always anxious to know how the performer feels about his or her services but rarely gets to hear it "straight from the horses mouth".  If a little humor helps break the ice, so be it. We hope this web page will help begin a type of dialog that has never before been possible and that is using the internet for an online discussion between tech and performer through email, newsletters and irc chats.

   If you are a performer, student, teacher, professor, recording studio engineer, stage manager, personal manager, musician or other interested person, please feel free to post an email to the moderated pnotec email list. By clicking on list@pnotec.com  you will be able send your comments to the list and receive back via email any responses.  List membership will be held in the strictest confidence except those who wish to post a profile to the List Member's Page.  For those who desire  autonomy, we welcome, "pen names", for complete autonomy you might consider an AOL account paid for by your agent's sister in law for example. 

       Preparation for performance involves some of the highest skills we technicians can hope to develop and attain.  Therefore it is important we communicate with those we are serving. 

                   Signed,

                                "Mr Peppercorn"

Helmholtz, p549. AJ Ellis translator of Helmholtz writes in his appendices,  Mr Peppercorn "who tuned originally for the Philharmonic Society, was concert tuner at Broadwoods and a great favorite of Mr. James Broadwood." (this could be as early as 1811 when James B's tuning instructions were published in a British magazine) and mentions a letter from Peppercorn's son stating, "....my father always tuned so that all keys can be played in, and neither he nor I ever held with making some keys sweet and others sour".  For the text of the 1811 James Broadwood's instructions for tuning in ET click on Articles here or in the left hand  column and then looks for "James Broadwood and ET, 1811"