---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The examiners will have to take it on the chin this afternoon I guess. Swing away if you like, but Ed is still correct. Kent On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:29 PM, David Andersen wrote: >> Marshall- >> >> If someone taught you to check A4 with F3, they don't know how to =20 >> tune a piano. >> Do you know the overtone series? (Also called partial series) >> Do you know what coincident partials are? >> These are the first things you need to know. If you know them, =20 >> you can figure out almost every problem of tuning for yourself. =20 >> If you don't know them, you won't really understand the answers, =20 >> even if someone gives you the right answer. >> 1) You need to be able to play an overtone (partial) series on any =20= >> note, up to the 8th partial. >> 2) You need to be able to find the "least coincident partials" =20 >> between any two notes, and especially between thirds, fourths and =20 >> fifths. >> You need to stop everything and learn these two skills. It may =20 >> take a few days to learn them. Eveything will begin to make sense =20= >> when you have these skills. >> >> Sincerely, >> Ed Sutton > > With all due respect, Ed, making these kinds of statements is ill-=20 > considered; very judgemental and dogmatic. There are many, many =20 > ways to get to be a proficient piano tuner. Perhaps Marshall has a =20= > natural affinity for listening to the whole tone, as artists hear =20 > the piano. Maybe following that affinity, and trusting it, will =20 > take him to the place he wants to go. Who are you to tell him he=92s =20= > wrong, or that his mentor is wrong? Is this the way we welcome new =20= > people into our little world? Marshall obviously has a big passion =20 > for this, and is trying to find his way. We need to be supportive. =20 > I=92ve never done a tuning with an ETD, and I=92ve never consciously =20= > =93partial-matched=94 during any of the 25,000 tunings I=92ve done. =20= > I=92ve got a pretty good practice, and I can tune as well as almost =20= > anyone in the world. > > Different strokes for different folks.......please. > > David Andersen > Malibu, CA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f5/f8/19/9b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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