This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I love these phrases, thank you so much. -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Cy Shuster Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:58 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Country units 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/3d/95/bd/c5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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