self-tuning piano?

[Kent Swafford]

The self-tuning piano is a long way from production.

I believe the inventor, Don Gilmore, is now an Associate member of PTG.

Although there remain many questions to ask about the technology, the 
questions that I have heard being asked of the inventor were answered 
quite competently indeed.

The fact that the inventor is now a PTG member means that the 
development of the self-tuning piano is being plugged into the general 
mainstream of piano technology, which can only be a good thing. Don 
appears to be open to suggestions from the techs.

If these pianos go into production, they will have at least a thousand 
dollars worth of extra stuff on them to do the self-tuning, stuff that 
someone will have to fix someday -- a piano tech perhaps?

Kent Swafford

On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:14  PM, pianolover 88 wrote:

> Although I didn't hear it first hand, my brother called today telling 
> me he heard, on a local newsradio station, that the "self-tuning piano 
> has arrived!" I recall this topic was discussed on this list a while 
> back, but does anyone have the skinny on this new technology? I have 
> serious doubts about its accuracy and practicality.
>
> Terry Peterson