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

[Paul T Williams]

That strange, Bert.  I'm in Nebraska and received the January issue late 
last week!

you might want to call the home office on this one.

Paul





From:
Albert Picknell <agghubii at yahoo.ca>
To:
caut at ptg.org
Date:
01/07/2011 02:28 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast...




I'm still waiting for my December 2010 issue.  This has become ridiculous. 
 For the last several months now I've been receiving each month's issue 
the following month - sometimes as late as the middle of the month. 
Anybody know what's going on with this?
 
Bert

--- On Fri, 1/7/11, Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast...
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: Friday, January 7, 2011, 9:17 AM

That would be January 2011.

br
----- Original Message -----
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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