Marathon tuning...John

David M. Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Sat, 04 Sep 1999 07:12:08 -0500


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Brian:

Your aural tunings will improve as you work with a VTD.

dave
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On 9/3/99 at 7:14 PM Brian Trout wrote:
Hi John,
 
I had to laugh at the first line! <grin>  
 
No steroids.  Just a mix of rest, exercise, good eatin', and a few vitamins
& minerals for good measure.  :-)
 
Actually, the only thing that hurt a bit was the hand that works the tuning
hammer.  Even got a small blister.  But after a day of different kind of
work, I'm all back to my usual self.  (And I was pretty tired.  They didn't
ask me to do the tunings 'till I had already worked for about 4 hours...
But a little sleep took care of that.)
 
I haven't used an ETD yet.  I've looked at the advertisements, and maybe
wish a bit from time to time, but for the time being, I'm an aural tuner.
I've been toying with Tunelab a bit, but I don't have a laptop computer, so
it's pretty much academic for now.  I would like to see if I could use an
ETD to make me a better aural tuner.  We'll see.  But one thing about the
'marathon tuning', it was good for me in that I got to set 10 temperaments
on 10 different pianos, the speed of which improved as I went, and they
actually got better as I went.  (Practice makes perfect...or at least we
move in that direction...)  I was going too fast, and they were in pretty
bad tune for me to play with more or less stretch in the octaves.  That'll
have to be for another day! :-)
 
I have the next week off, so I'll catch up on my R&R for sure!!  :-) 
 
Hope you have a nice holiday weekend.
 
Brian Trout
Quarryville, PA
btrout@desupernet.net
 
-----Original Message-----
From: John M. Formsma <jformsma@dixie-net.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:29 PM
Subject: RE: Marathon tuning


Dear Brian Schwarzeneggar,
 
Send me whatever steroids you are taking, and I'll wrestle some Baldwins,
too. :-)
 
May you rest well over this 4-day weekend. :-)  You deserve it.
Congratulations.
 
John Formsma
 
P.S.  Did you tune these aurally or electronically?
 
 
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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