37 steps---delayed response

David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net
Thu Feb 7 14:17:12 MST 2008


Many jobs in piano work benefit from a circular approach.  That includes
regulation, tuning and voicing, among others.  The reasons are twofold.
First, some steps influence other steps as in the case of regulation (which
has already been discussed), in a pitch raise for obvious reasons, or in
voicing where we can't really make very refined decisions about any
particular note until we get the voice of the entire piano in the ballpark
to know what it is that we are refining to.  The other important factor has
to do with the psychology of perception.  We are able to discern smaller
variations and differences when the entire scope of our view is reduced.  So
each successive pass we make in a tuning, voicing, or regulation allows us
to narrow our focus to a finer and finer set of criteria.   By roughing
things in first followed by a second (or third) pass to achieve our final
goal, whether it's regulation, tuning or voicing we'll deliver more
consistent and higher quality results.   

 

 

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net
www.davidlovepianos.com 

 


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