[pianotech] Aurally pure octaves

[PianoCare2]

Hi David and others..

 David, your first paragraph is inspiring. In my last post I gave examples
of different thoughts of technicians and their personal view of how to
achieve their goals. I am still wondering about my tuning example from
yesterday as I seemed to perform the same tuning in two different ways. The
open string method sounded better to me but it could have been job
satisfaction and confidence in my work.

I am intrigued on the "technique developed by Virgil" as we seem to give him
credit for the idea, however I am sure it was happening here and in other
countries. Virgil seems to have got the credit for the system, and I say
good luck to him.

I would still like a dollar for every time I have heard "my tuning process
is the best ever, and the only way to perform it" There is a tuner here who
advertises that he tunes "equal temperament with perfect fifths" Apparently
he is the only qualified tuner around..

However.. In this thread I have noticed "flow, zone, leap of faith,
believing in yourself, meditation, etc. I am now waiting for a book to come
out.. " Zen and the Art of Piano Tuning".. Ha 

I wish to also add a little psychology and it comes from the practitioners
of NLP. (well they claim ownership)

The 4 parts of learning. 1. Unconscious incompetence, 2. conscious
incompetence, 3. Conscious competence and 4.  Unconscious competence.

This can be applied to any human activity. 

Now thanks to David's post, let's not be influenced by the negative
responses from others. Do it your way. If our peers complement us on our
work, we must be on the right track.

Regards

Brian Wilson

 

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Andersen
Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2009 4:07 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Aurally pure octaves

 

 

On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:56 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote:





I figured that much of what is being said here is tempest in a teapot and
largely semantic. I think that, if you go back to Virgils original claims,
and see where they were coming from (the anti-science bias, etc.), he was
tuning just I tune, and as you tune, and as all of us tune who are fine
tuners (so self-proclaimed :-))

 

This is the central truth of our craft. Anyone who is a serious piano tuner
uses their developed hearing skill in a global and multi-leveled way to get
to the same place: a musical, soaring, stable, singing tuning. It doesn't
ultimately matter one whit how you get there: ETD, non-ETD, ET or non-ET,
strip, no strip, "partial matching," "whole-tone listening," light, stiff
levers, heavy, even impact levers, sitting low, sitting high, "impact" or
"jerk" or "wiggle" lever technique...the bottom line is this. Does it sound
fantastic?

 

That's all anybody really cares about, so I want to do it the way it's most
fun and fulfilling for me, AND the most idealized and musical to my trained
and demanding ears. Because my custom protocols have worked so well for me,
I want to share them. I don't really care if you adopt them or not. I just
want my colleagues to produce the finest tunings in the best way for them.

 

David Andersen

 

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