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[Farrell]

You tuned a piano and installed a DC system on the same day? How long did that tuning last?

Terry Farrell
  
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> Curious you should post this.
> 
> I tuned a piano yesterday that is in a chapel built for soldiers training
> for WWII (part of a museum tour, WWII barracks, tanks, etc. at Fort Wood)
> anyway there is no attic in this building just the roof itself between the
> congregation and the sky. Well, I showed up to tune and ended up running all
> over to find the guy who was supposed to let me in--he had the wrong date.
> There were two roofers up there working. They did speak English but didn't
> have a building key and didn't know anything about me coming to tune the
> piano, etc.
> 
> Then I got in, installed a Dampp-Chaser and tuned ... all to the constant
> rat-a-tat tap bang bang-a-bang BANG of two guys with hammers 20 feet over my
> head.
> 
> Seems the Army wanted the roof fixed and the piano tuned all in time for a
> special Easter service in this chapel.
> 
> As you said, might as well get all the noisy things done at the same time!
> 
> Alan Barnard
> Salem, MO
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Susan Kline
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 9:16 PM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Re: Language
> 
> 
> At 08:45 PM 3/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Susan, I don't understand some of your terminology here, and I thought I'd
> >learned to speak fairly fluent Tunese:
> 
> Probably my fault -- laziness.
> 
> 
> >There are as many tests as one feels like pursuing, but
> >in everyday work I tend to focus on three: the tenth test
> >in the middle range, but only if the timbre of the octave
> >isn't pleasing me; the sixth test in the bass, ditto, and
> >I temper fourths, fifths and octaves all the way to the
> >top and most of the way to the bottom. Octaves the straightest,
> >then a little curl to the fifths and a little bit bigger curl
> >to the fourths, but basically making all of the perfect
> >intervals (4, 5, 8) as clear as possible.
> >
> >A. "tenth test" 10ths against 3rds? running 10ths? both?
> 
> Octave test, seeing if the upper and lower notes of the octave
> beat equally against a note a major third below the lower note.
> I don't always insist that they beat exactly the same -- the
> upper note can beat a little faster. But I like for all the
> octaves to have about the same difference.
> 
> 
> >B. "sixth test ... bass" major 6th/minor 3rd? running 6ths?
> 
> Minor third/major 6th, within the octave, to check for the bass
> octave size. I use running almost everything when checking the
> temperament, but usually not later on. If the deep bass is really
> puzzling me, I'll sometimes run consecutive (what is it? 15ths?)
> octave+minor sevenths.
> 
> 
> 
> >C. "I temper fourths ..." not sure what you mean here ... extending the
> >temperament into bass, treble?
> 
> Tune octaves by ear; check fifths, check fourths. Make sure none are
> obnoxious, or if obnoxious, make sure that all three intervals are
> obnoxious in the same pattern: octaves best, fifths next best, fourths
> least best -- <grin> -- but nothing wonderful at the expense of
> something else becoming godawful. I do this all the way to C88,
> and down toward the low octave as long as the clarity of the bass allows.
> 
> 
> >D. "Octaves the straightest" purest 6:3s ??
> 
> not so much checking one test (6-3's) against another (2-1, or 4-2) ...
> purely aural, by timbre.
> 
> 
> >E. "a little curl to the fifths ... little bigger curl to the fourths"  ya
> >really got me here ... ???
> 
> Well, you know ... a curl is a slow, tired little beat ... a
> "miao"
> 
> 
> >F. "perfect intervals ... as clear as possible" clear=pure?
> 
> Why, sure, except that thirds and sixths and all that aren't
> pure. Perfect intervals (as opposed to major/minor intervals)
> are fifths, fourths, octaves, and unisons.
> 
> 
> >Appreciate a little comment, thanks,
> >
> >Alan Barnard
> >Salem, MO
> 
> No problemo .. well, I hope, anyway.
> 
> Susan
> 
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