37 steps---delayed response

[paul bruesch]

Well, if you tune a piano that's 50c flat, you don't just "follow the steps"
of bringing the piano "to pitch." While it might not make sense to a lay
person (e.g. a piano owner/player) that you need to bring it over pitch to
have it wind up at/near pitch, it's a well-known fact to piano techs (and
one that is quite difficult for me to try to explain to those lay owners.)
Likewise in regulation, if (a) affects (b) affects (c) affects (a), then any
worthwhile tech who is regulating a piano will go back and check/adjust (a)
after doing (c). That's what the exams are all about, isn't it?? Making sure
someone doesn't just learn a rote HOW method?? Rather that we learn the WHYs
as well.

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Feb 7, 2008 2:43 PM, Israel Stein <custos3 at comcast.net> wrote:

>  At 07:44 AM 2/7/2008, you wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Have you been to LRS?  The 37 steps instructs to go back to..., check
> this, etc.  Just like someone said earlier...
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, Illinois
>
>
> Then why title it and present it as if it were a linear sequence? I think
> Yamaha is sending a mixed message here that is responsible for an awful lot
> of confusion and misunderstanding among piano technicians. You call
> something "37 steps" and an awful lot of people are going to think that you
> do the steps - and then you are finished. And I see a lot of evidence that
> this is actually happening.
>
> Israel Stein
>
>
>
>  I guess that's why I prefer Kawai's circle of refinement to Yamaha's 37
> steps, in the circle of refinement you are seeking to regulate/adjust/refine
> as needed to bring the action to the point of functioning properly rather
> than  following a list of steps some of which may seem/be superfluous. In
> the circle of refinement it is not unheard of to repeat/redo and adjustment
> after performing some of the other adjustments, it's considered another step
> on the road to refinement.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
> Michael Magness
> Magness Piano Service
> 608-786-4404
> www.IFixPianos.com
> email mike at ifixpianos.com
>
>
>
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