Which issue of the Journal is this article in? Thanks, Jeff Farris UT Austin On 1/6/11 8:16 PM, "Diane Hofstetter" <dianepianotuner at msn.com> wrote: > > Yesterday I had to tune as many practice room pianos as possible in a > specified time frame. They had to be stable, something I have been struggling > with for a year now. (I now have one year's data on humidity inside the > pianos and proof positive that they are not being properly controlled. In > addition, they are new pianos with too few initial tunings.) > > I had just enough time before leaving for the job to speed read "How Fast is > Fast?" by Alan Zajicek, RPT and Ed Sutton, RPT. I noted down their sequence > and tried it--throughout the treble of the piano, not just the mid-range. > > It was an amazing experience. I didn't speed tune, but tuned with a LOT LESS > STRESS! The biggest effect it had was to change something inside me. > Concentrating on following their sequence, I didn't even notice until after > the fact, that I tuned all the unisons aurally--including C-88. > > Then there was the sound disconnect inside me, when I skipped unisons whie > tuning ascending, skipping every other note. At first, it sounded like all my > unisons were dramatically sharp :-) > Of course! Then I realized I had to listen differently, not in the automatic > way to which I had become accustomed. > > Unisons suddenly started popping into place--I couldn't even tell how it was > happening. > > I had to do pitch raises and tunings on each of the pianos. There was less > work to do on the final tunings. > > I can't wait until next month! > > THANK YOU, ALAN AND ED! > > Diane Hofstetter Jeff Farris Piano Technician School of Music UT Austin jfarris at mail.utexas.edu 512-471-0158
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