> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment on 11/7/03 10:30 PM, Erwinspiano@aol.com at Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: Anyone understand what I mean? Please be gentle... Wayne Lutzow Lincoln, CA Sacramento Valley PTG Wayne I applaud you for your candor honesty, & truthful assessment of your own tuning. You can obviously hear & have an intuitive idea as to what it is a well laid out tuning sounds like. With these qualities you will find what you're looking for. Peter Clark is a good friend of mine & also one of the finest tuners, & vouchers I've ever worked with. I would ask him to give you some guidance. He's a generous helpful person & has done much teaching in your area. You must use your ears to check your tuning which means developing aural skills to the point that they can overrides the defects & inconsistencies of ETD's. Dale Erwin Good job, Wayne. Just keep going, and trust your ears; they're so much more reliable, and pleasurable, than trusting a silicon-based device. By all means, find a mentor whose tunings blow you away. Beg him or her to let you hang around and listen. You will learn so much; your body will learn so much. About 15 months ago, on this list, I was challenged to take the final "step out on the tightrope" as an aural tuner---completely old school, with just one mute, one fork, one tuning hammer. So I did. And, after an initial harrowing couple of weeks, I started to get comfortable with the finality of it----and then the doors literally blew open to a whole new world of precision and musicality in my tuning. It sounded good to me before, but now it sounds----well---perfect: liquid, swelling, blooming tones, everything is such calm and beautiful balance, peace and harmony in every key, every chord voicing; the "money area" floating out above the rest of the piano with so much character and color....the world-class pianists I've been tuning for over the years have definitely noticed, and commented. I've seen the absolute truth of Virgil Smith's statement that a solid, precise, whole-tone musical tuning can cause a tremendous psycho-acoustic illusion in the player----the regulation feels better, the voicing sounds better----but all that's been done is the tuning. Amazing. Please understand I'm not advocating failing to regulate or voice---far from it---but I'm just making a point. Becoming a world-class tuner will guarantee a comfortable income and big respect in your local piano circles. I guarantee it. <g> David Andersen Malibu, CA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8b/5a/f5/34/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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