This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I love tuning for people here in southern West Virginia. They're = down-to-earth, and a lot more sophisticated than you might expect. Very = much into music: churches with a dozen instruments in the sanctuary = (guitars, drums, keyboards). However, I've found different ways of expressing concepts, especially = since there's so much familiarity with guitars. For example, instead of = "100 cents flat", I just say "It's a fret low". Instead of "a piano has = between 220 and 250 strings", I say "tuning a piano is like tuning 40 = guitars". That one even got my attention! Since I always make at least = two passes, one tuning's the equivalent of 80 guitars -- 120 with a = pitch raise! To describe a pitch raise, I give the example of moving a = house to a new foundation. If one corner was way low and you jacked it = up, something else would get thrown out as a result, so you'd have to go = around once to get it close before trying to make the floors really = level. Instead of "tuning pins pressed into a laminated pinblock", I say = "they're nailed into holes drilled into butcher block", or I use the = example of violin pegs with a friction fit instead of guitar tuners with = gears. "Delamination" is "like kitchen chairs coming unglued in = wintertime". I often take off the bottom cabinet panel on uprights and = point out the similarities to a guitar: strings terminating at the rim, = running over a bridge. What I like the best is still to check out a piano, and when they ask me = how bad it is, saying simply "It's a fret low". --Cy Shuster-- Bluefield, West By God Virginia ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/e4/ea/83/96/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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