was OnlyPure not P 12ths Tunings

[Bernhard Stopper]

Ric don´t laugh,

all professionals will, and there are some good reasons.

by the way, the patent pending is for the method of using those 3-note pure 
interval combinations that are a result of the P12 theory, not for the P12 
idea and the many solutions there had been in the past years.
If you find, that this solution is not new, you may raise objection in the 
patent process.

no one MUST use the new method, but there are many advantages for a 
professional tuner in licensing a
method that is superior to any previous, since this is not just a simply a 
new bearing plan, it is a method that pushes your pitch tuning precision to 
a level of unison tuning precision level.  (what i am convinced of and you 
will be too, as soon you tried it out)

what will you do if a pianist of the champions league comes along your town 
making a concert and asks you for the OnlyPure method? convince the pianist 
from another solution? or violate a patent? It is easy to check if one uses 
the method or not. At least for the professional tuners/manufacturers it is 
impossible to use/sell a protected method without having the proper license.

the answer is, it is better to have a license and use the mark, and convince 
all your customers with the new method and then you have a marketing 
advantage again colleagues who have not licensed and can not use legally the 
method or the mark.

i was at the Frankfurt Musikmesse last week, and some technicians had the 
same reaction like you...

but most others who were fascinated about the pure 3-note-interval tuning 
idea and saw the marketing chance they have in their professional  area and 
also at their private customers. You can even make more money with marketing 
the thing, than you pay license fees for it. It should be a profit for both 
sides, not only for me, and the most profit at the side of the licensee.

And as higher the license fee is, as higher the profit is for a professional 
tuner, since only for tuners doing over 100-300 tunings per year it is worth 
in investing in a license fee of 400 ? for the first year and 200 ? for the 
following. Thus, you will have a cost of about 0,5-2 ? per tuning (depending 
on how professional you are), and you can easily raise your price for at 
least 10 ?.

regards,

Bernhard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:05 AM
Subject: P 12ths Tunings


> Grin...
>
> With all respect to Bernard, this ought to be very interesting to see in 
> practice. One is off course free to go through any patent process one 
> wants, but I cant see anyone making money on such an adventure.  In 
> anycase, P12ths tunings of various sorts  have been practiced and 
> publicized in various forums now for at least 5 years, and I have seen 
> articles talking about P12ths tuning concepts back as far as 20years ago 
> by more then one source.  Me thinks Bernard missed his chance to patent 
> this idea  when he first wrote about this some 20 years ago. Even so... 
> patenting a tuning method ??? How on earth is anyone ever going to enforce 
> such a thing, even if the idea was worth patenting in the first place ? 
> What tuner in his/her right mind will pay another tuner for the rights to 
> use some bearing plan ? Good for the days humour tho :)
> Cheers
> RicB
>
> In a message dated 4/13/05 10:54:34 AM, b98tu@t-online.de 
> <mailto:b98tu@t-online.de> writes:
>
>
>>/ The OnlyPure method is patent pending and registered as mark and will be
> />/ licensed to professional tuners and instrument makers which will 
> benefit
> />/ from marketing this revolutionary tuning concept./
>
>
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