This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment 1. Whatever the merits of your ideas, they will not be such a miracle improvement over all others that people will want to pay, methinks. And = we have a planetfull of ears that are pretty accustomed to ET, anyway. 2. Watch your language please. There are ladies, and gentlemen, who read this list. 3. Besides, I've already patented the ideal continental tuning. It's official name is the "Bardot Belle Outside Well Temperament," but I just call it the "French Curve." I have attached a graphic of the shape of = this curve for any who wish to analyze it. Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Bernhard Stopper Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 10:33 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: marketing a patented tuning Was OnlyPure OK, kidding is a normal reaction to suppress fear. And if one reads the reactions on this list about patenting a tuning = method, it seems that everybody feels pissed on by this. But let me tell, that there are already many serious colleagues who see = the=20 marketing chance of a protected method. You can easily ask more for a high valued work and get much higher paid = than you pay license fees. Professional music business is also often big money business. Do you = know=20 what a world class pianist asks for a concert evening? And the tuner who makes the work to get the pianist fly, is the asshole = for=20 some bucks. Same big money business for professional CDs. Suppose you get a job for = a=20 recording session. And suppose, OnlyPure is a synonyme for protected = quality like dolby. The CD label will be interested to use the OnlyPure mark on = the=20 CD. Thus, they pay for the use of the mark, and the tuner will be=20 participated. Sounds good, doesn=B4t? If an enhanced method is protected by patenting, there is a good chance, = to=20 ask a price that relates more to the quality and importance of the work=20 done. To license a good product is a chance for a good deal, not a bad deal. regards, Bernhard Stopper http://www.onlypure.info ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "William Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:12 AM Subject: Re: Was OnlyPure not (flame time?) > At 2:27 PM -0400 4/15/05, A440A@aol.com wrote: >><< or pitch-shimming. >> >>Now, I like that term!! > > Just to let you know, I have a patent pending on the technique. <g> > > At 11:59 AM -0700 4/15/05, David Andersen wrote: >>Ooohhh, I do too....does it mean supersmall changes in the pitch of a=20 >>3-string unison? > > The technique is the same regardless of whether the pitch correction=20 > is > fingernail size or 15-lb turkey size. But the royalty is based on the=20 > pitch correction. > > Seriously, I described it in the 1/97 PTJ, as well as on this list. I > stumbled on it three years out of N. Bennet Street, and its = versatility=20 > continues to amaze me. > > MasterCard, Visa, DiscoverCard, all the major plastics. > > Bill Ballard RPT > NH Chapter, P.T.G. > > "A man who tells the truth is bound to be found out sooner or later." > ...........Uncle Harry in "The Tailor of Panama" > +++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives --=20 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.13 - Release Date: 04/16/2005 =20 --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.13 - Release Date: 04/16/2005 =20 =20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: getpic[1].jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 49722 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4d/06/2a/54/getpic1.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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