[CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast...

[Barbara Richmond]

That would be January 2011 . 

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From: "Jeff Farris" <Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu> 
To: caut at ptg.org 
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2011 6:47:46 AM 
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast... 

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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