O.T. 'The Competition"

[Z! Reinhardt]

From: David Renaud
Perhaps it's a trick pin, windings running in the
wrong directon. Pins with counterclockwise theads,
custom built, for you, very special price.
                                    Cheers :)
                                    Dave Renaud

From: Greg Torres
In this very same movie Richard Dreyfus throws a fit about the 'voicing' on
one particular piano he is playing...but the note is simply WAY out of
tune...I guess Hollywood figured no one could tell the difference between
voicing and a really bad unison...and sadly, for the most part they are
right...

Best,
Greg Torres

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Who says Hollywood knows anything about how pianos are put together or how
they are serviced?  For all we know the people who created these scenes
don't know which way a tuning pin turns or the difference between tuning and
voicing.  Perhaps they don't even care to know because it might interfere
with their ideas of how it should appear in the scenes described here.
(Strange, considering the current obsession with "reality-based" programming
....)

Z! Reinhardt  RPT
Ann Arbor  MI
diskladame@provide.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Driscoll
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: O.T. 'The Competition"


List,
  Watching  the movie "The Competition"--  A young pianist is checking the
tuning on his practice piano, playing chromatically, all unisons perfect.
Suddenly one note is way ,I mean WAY out. He stands up,reaches into his coat
pocket and pulls out a tiny tuning lever, looking somewhat like  the size of
those pinsetters w/ handles. He intuitively knows which string is flat and
proceeds to pull the string right up in perfect unison ! The magic of the
movies allowed this to happen while moved the pin in the wrong direction !
               Tom Driscoll