[CAUT] teaching piano tuning

[Dorothy Bell]

Hi, Kent and all --

I should have finished the sentence to make my point clearer: I was
thinking something along the lines of recording the waveforms and
identifying which sorts of hammers (if any) created larger-amplitude
resonances in the high overtones and which did not, for example. The
professors' opinions would be a different sort of study.

What prompted my thoughts were some articles I saw recently, studies of
vibrational spectra created by different sorts of hammer felts done by
Scandinavian scientists and published in the Journal of the Acoustical
Society. My dad, who is a violin theoretician, is always sending me such
articles and saying, I bet your friends have been talking about this
interesting article! And in fact we mostly don't. 

I would think that if we were to propose a college/university level
training, we would need to be developing such training with the purpose of
advancing knowledge (someone else here just said that, I'm sorry I've
forgotten who). 

JMHO --

Dorrie Bell


> [Original Message]
> From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net>
> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: 11/7/2004 7:21:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] teaching piano tuning
>
> OK, so let's _get_ real. Finish the sentence. ""In a study of four 
> different voicing techniques carried out on pianos otherwise identical, 
> it was found that  33% of college university professors thought all the 
> techniques produced 'dreadful' results, 33% though all the techniques 
> produced 'magnificent' results, and 33% would offer no opinion until 
> they had heard all the opinions of all the other professors."
>
> The point is that I don't think all college level activity is expected 
> to follow the scientific method.
>
> Kent Swafford
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Dorothy Bell wrote:
>
> >  
> > But to get real, I don't think that the college level is the place for 
> > piano tech as we now do it. We don't say things like, "In a study of 
> > four different voicing techniques carried out on pianos otherwise 
> > identical, it was found that . . . "
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