Jim and Ric, I would love to hear you do this. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Coleman, Sr. <pianotoo@imap2.asu.edu> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Cc: Paul Sanderson <inventrncs@AOL.COM> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:46 PM Subject: Tuneoff challenge > Hey Ric: > > Would you be up to a Tuneoff in Chicago this summer with me? I > will be willing to wear earplugs and earmuffs and tune with the > SAT III While you tune strictly aurally. If you beat me by as much > as 10% of the vote of the audience, I will pay your PTG dues for > one year. If I beat you, you owe me nothing. We'll still be > friends no matter what. > > Based on what we learned from previous tuneoffs, we should limit > ourselves to 1 or 1.5 hrs each. The pianos should be the same model, > approx equal in voicing. This should be a double blind test in > which in the first heat, You tune piano No. 1 and I tune piano no..2. > In the second heat, I tune piano no. 1 and you tune piano no.2. > This will eliminate any advantage of one piano having a better > tone than the other. The pianos chosen should be 6' or better in size. > They should be detuned according to the PTG Tuning Exam procedure > before each heat in order that an advantage of the previous tuning > can not be utilized. The identity as to who tuned which piano should > be kept a secret from the audience to avoid any favoritism of > either the method of tuning or the personality of the Tuner. > > For the audience's benefit, we could have someone play about four > identical selections on each piano twice, alternating as to which > piano is played first. Better yet, we could have Diskclavier or > PianoDisc recordings do the playing to make the playing more > identical. Perhaps Yamaha, Kawai or Mason & Hamlin would be willing > to sponsor such an event. > > My prediction as in the first Tuneoff is that there will not be a > dime's worth of difference (10% differential in the voting of the > audience). I respect you as a good aural tuner from your > experience in the San Francisco bay area, now in the Dakotas, and > from our encounters in my home. > > We could add another twist to this by having the tuning scored by > the PTG Tuning Examiners. > > Since you have done a lot of original study of the Historical > Tunings recently, perhaps the following year we could do another > Tuneoff > where you pick your favorite Historical temperament, Bill Bremmer does > his EBVT and I do the Coleman XI. I would not want this to become > an ego trip, but an educational experience. Competitive, YES, but > for bragging rights, NO. I commend Bill and Virgil for their last > encounter, To this date I have not heard who WON, but I HAVE heard > that it was very educational. > > Of course, if there is enough interest shown in another Tuneoff, > we should let the Institute Committee make their comments on it if > this is to happen at all. They are the ones who would make any > final decisions as to this happening at a Convention. > > What do you the other readers say? > > Jim Coleman, Sr. > >
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