37 steps---delayed response

[David Ilvedson]

Ok...you might as well explain "there is a lot clearer and less potentially 
>misleading conceptual framework with which to present "Regulation""...

Personally, I found the Yamaha regulation process a fascinating way to understand how everything is inter-related and why some things are done before other things...but then I didn't go to that fancy North Bennet school for training...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 2/7/2008 2:28:39 PM
Subject: Re: 37 steps---delayed response 


>At 02:01 PM 2/7/2008, Paul Bruesch wrote:
>>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

>Actually, Paul what you write merely supports my contention. We don't 
>teach "88 steps of tuning". We teach "Pitch raising", "temperament 
>tuning", "octave tuning" and "unison tuning". Then we put it all 
>together. Likewise, there is a lot clearer and less potentially 
>misleading conceptual framework with which to present "Regulation" 
>than "X steps". And if you spend some time analyzing screwed up 
>regulations with students and listen to what misconceptions they came 
>out with from some of these "step-by-step" teaching methods you might 
>a clearer picture of  what I am talking about...

>Israel Stein.