self tuning piano????

[Jon Page]

At 12:21 AM 7/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>There's no such thing as regular periodic tunings, if what you speak of is 
>the old fashioned mechanical kind. The article specifically says that 
>"string locks are included to effectively clamp strings in place after the 
>initial factory tuning."
>
>Pride goeth before the Fall. Ruling out the possibility of a mechanical 
>tuning is a fatal flaw. With a fatal flaw like this one, we don't need to 
>trash it, it'll walk itself to the dumpster all by itself.
>
>I am actually tickled by the idea, tuning speaking length by running 
>electrical current through them. I think it's ingenious.


If the strings are locked in place there is going to be one heck of a kink 
put in the wire, just try tuning that.

If it is tuned in the factory, only a factory specialist will be qualified 
to tune it once the tuning gets really of whack.
Imagine the price tag that service will bring.

What'll happen when the drink gets spilled into it?

I wonder if there will be the offshoot tuning aid. On rmmp he also talked 
of a unit which can be used on any piano.
This unit had a pickup for each wire and magnetically attached itself to 
adjacent strings. The piano owner turns the
pin until the display is flat (bars ascending or decending from zero). Move 
the pickup over one unison, set the display to zero.
The piano can be tuned in twenty minutes.  It only samples the fundamental 
because the other harmonics are not needed
according to the inventor.

Someone said that it will revolutionize the tuning industry as the Flowbee 
has in hair cutting.  I think it will give a whole new
meaning to tuning instability to a new group of pin benders.

Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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