---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Believe me, the test blow for the PTG tuning test is NOT a mf blow! :-) Avery At 01:39 PM 10/26/04, you wrote: >Can we define our terms here briefly. > >When I practice tuning, my instructor stresses to use a "hard test >blow". His hard test blow is an 'mf' (mezzo forte). I am a trained >pianist, and mezzo forte is not hard at all...but that is what he refers >to it as. If I should say to you play a 'hard test blow', it would have >to be an 'ff' (fortissimo) or above. For my very first tuning exam, one >of the things I was tested for the loudness of my test blows. I was told >to hit my test blow an 'mf', which I did. Then I found out it was not >hard enough for my instructor. I found out when he tells me to play a >good 'mf' test blow, he really means a hard 'f' - 'ff' blow. I understand >what he means now, and I just go with it. > >Matthew > >Quentin Codevelle <quentin.codevelle@tiscali.fr> wrote: >I asked my yam teacher who is a concert tech (of course) if he had enough >stability with soft blows even with "heavy hands". >He told me there was no problem at all, like andre says, it is the tuning >technique that seems to make the difference. > >I went to a concert prep with him, I watched everything that was done to >the piano, included tuning (with soft blows). >The unisons did not move during the concert (at least it was not noticeable). >Of course the D that was prepared for this concert was very stable, >because it is exclusively serviced by the same tech. > >Should we say that trusting our habit of making a final hard blow just to >test the stability (taught by most tuning teachers, but not mine) reveals >we have some improvements to do on our tuning technique? > >for my case, I changed my tuning technique really early because I've been >aware of this really early, but I imagine this must be difficult for >experienced tuners who have been tuning with the same method for years. > >I think it is difficult to get a regularity, eveness with this "way of >tuning" but the result worths it. > >Eveness in hitting the key+good tuning technique= Eveness in the tone . > >This seems to be the right equation here. > >Quentin. > > > >Matthew Todd >Todd Piano Works >Piano Tuner/Technician >Tuning - Repairing - Regulating > > >Do you Yahoo!? ><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo>Take >Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7f/01/d7/43/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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