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

[Ed Sutton]

Albert-

The Journal is mailed out by the printer.
I'll pass this on to the Home Office.

Ed Sutton
Journal Editor
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Albert Picknell 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 3:23 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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