self tuning piano????

[Richard Brekne]

Del... I think you might benifit from reading Vonneguts Player Piano....for
that matter Galapagos might be a good one for you too :)  ..... Have a nice
convention did you ?

grin

Cheers

RicB



 Delwin D Fandrich wrote:

>You're absolutely right, Wim. This thing can't possibly work. And while
>we're at it, let's trash a few other ideas that are so far out there that
>they also can't possibly work: the internal combustion engine comes to
>mind.
>All those moving -- metal sliding against metal, what a stupid idea --
>parts
>and trying to vaporize liquid gasoline fast enough to burn with enough
>force
>to produce power...ridiculous. Not only is the basic idea unworkable, think
>what it will do to the economy. All the wagon makers, horse farms and
>stable
>workers will be out of jobs, not to mention the rig repairers and wagon
>technicians. Surely the world will be awash in unemployment if the big
>manufacturers go ahead with these foolish ideas. And I understand there are
>a couple of fool brothers somewhere who are even working on a way to get
>one
>of these engines to power some kind of mechanical contraption they call an
>aeroplane. This aeroplane thing -- as ungainly and as heavy as it is --
>they
>hope to get off the ground and make fly through the air. Now everyone knows
>just how stupid that idea is. Why that thing is a whole lot heavier than
>air.
>
>Well, I'll not go on. It's clear that we must trash every new idea that
>comes along in this business. And the sooner the better. After all, the
>piano business is so robust and thriving just now it would be a terrible
>shame to do anything that might upset things. It would never do to take an
>idea with some obvious problems and develop it over time and actually make
>it work. Like the spelling checker, for example. Does anyone else remember
>how ungainly and awkward they were when they first became available?
>Impossible to use! Not to mention buggy, slow, inaccurate, incomplete --
>really more trouble than they were worth. Besides, if one were ever made to
>work well, think what it would do to the editing industry. Now they are so
>simple and efficient they actually can be set up to run in the background
>and make even pathetic spellers like me look good. And editors -- at least
>the one to whom I'm married -- are busy correcting bad grammar, typos and
>awkward sentence structure. (No, she didn't edit this -- all of the
>grammatical, typos and structural errors are my own.)
>
>Have a nice, comfortable and non-challenging day one and all....
>
>Del
>
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Wimblees@AOL.COM>
>To: <Pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: July 01, 2002 1:51 PM
>Subject: self tuning piano????
>
>
>> In the July Journal is a hillarious article about the self tuning piano.
>I
>know this story has been on the list before, but I just want to be sure all
>of you read it, just for the fun of it. It is absolutley unreal to think
>that someone could actually justify the invention of this "tool". What is
>even more discouraging is that someone from the piano industry actually
>paid
>this guy to develop and install the system in a real piano.
>>
>> Here are a couple of misnomers which lead this guy to think the systme
>works. He thinks one of the reasons strings go out of tune is because
>tuning
>pins slip. To solve this problem, he actually has developed a "string
>lock",
>to permantly clamp the strings in place, making tuning pins superflous.
>Tuning pins and strings do not move. (unles the pin block is bad).
>>
>> Another problem with the system is that the piano will be re-tuned
>repeatedly to a tuning set at the factory. This tuning will be done by a
>"Story & Clark Master Technician". Oh, I know the kind. The one in the
>booth
>at the end of the production line, competing with the noise of the
>stringing
>department. I am sure that will be a great tuning. For comparison, it took
>4
>CTE level tuner 5 hours to tune a piano at the convention. Do you think
>there might be a differnce between the two tunings? I wonder if the piano
>can be reprogrammed? Will Ed be able to do his thing on it?
>>
>> Mr. Gilmore's experiment "have shown that varying the pitch of a string
>50
>cents requires, on the average, about one watt per string". Oh that's
>great.
>A pitch raise of 50 cents, with all the strings being tuned at the same
>time. I wonder what the effect on the soundboard will be? Do you think it
>will stay in tune?
>>
>> Mr. Gilmore, if you're lurking, please just concentrate on your job as a
>engineer, and leave pianos to people who have expericen tuning and
>repairing
>them. I'm sorry you spent so much time and engergy, not to mention money,
>on
>a system that is a failure. You might be able to sell a few of these things
>to unsuspecting customers, but you have done the tuning industry, not to
>mention the whole piano industry, a great diservice inventing a usuless
>electronic device. You should be ashamed of yourself for even attempting to
>justify your invention.
>>
>> Wim Blees RPT
>> Tuscaloosa, AL


Richard Brekne
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