Country units

[Carl Teplitski]

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" Great devices for having people understand technical jargon. "We who are
techs., assume that most people can understand what we're talking about
when we say pitch raise. Telling someone that their piano is 50 cents flat,
almost always gets that glazed over look.  I often tell peole that because
their piano is flat, it will have to be tuned 2 or 3 times to get it to 
settle at pitch.
It is similar to painting a plaster wall , which hasn't seen paint for 
10 or 20
years. You know  what happens to the first coat ?  Well almost all people
will say that the paint seems to sink into the plaster,  but the next 
coat usually
makes a bigger difference.  Of course , it isn't unusual to have to 
paint a third
time, if you really want a good job.  Most times , 2 tunings are pretty 
good, and
will suffice till the next scheduled tuning, say in 6 months or so. If 
in a concert
setting, one might have to tune maybe 3 or 4 times that week.

Carl / Winnipeg












jason kanter wrote:

> 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
>      
>      
>


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