Philippe,
At 08:45 AM 3/3/2006 +0100, you wrote:
> > Philippe, I fear that you are serious about this.
>
>Do you ? Really ? Waow... Cool... I didn't know I was THAT good ;-)
Didn't fool everybody... ;-}
>Well, my point is : Never do that with a vacuum cleaner bag (lol)
>Philippe
...unless it's never been used.
>Ps : In fact my real plan, since I own a very old piano with a wooden frame
>and which I'm not even sure I can raise to A440 without breaking it, and
>since I was an IT guy and quite good at mathematical programming, was
>to write my own program to analyse the stretching needed by the strings,
>and then produce my own reference sound set, to be able to check string
>per string, not needing to rebuild the whole temperament each time it
>changes...
I know a couple of excellent techs in Bruxelles who, I'm sure, could point
you in the right direction and save you a lot of work. (Pierre, Stéphane,
you here?) They both do a lot of work on really old instruments...
>... and then, I tune it to the fan of my computer's power supply
>The only risk is that I will have to shut down the fans of my processor and
>graphics chips that could give false beats ;-)
Using my laptop, with it's intermittent fan, would necessitate careful
timing and/or temporary delays in the tuning process, right?
Leave it up to Jeff Foxworthy to give us a proper use for a vacuum
cleaner. I peaked ahead to tomorrow on my "You Might be a Redneck If..."
calendar.
"You Might be a Redneck If... Your burglar alarm is a vacuum
cleaner plugged into a motion detector."
Conrad Hoffsommer
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