>Scott Thile (scott.thile@murraystate.edu) has sent you a news >article. (Email address has not been verified.) >------------------------------------------------------------ >Personal message: > >Hello CAUT folks, > >One of the Profs here on campus emailed me the link to this story. >Anyone heard about this system or Gilmore, the inventor?? > >Sounds interesting. Id love to see one of these in action. > >Self-Tuning Piano Set to Make Sweet Music >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20021204/sc_nm/science_piano_dc > >============================================================ >Yahoo! News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Hi Scott, This subject has come up a few times on rec.music.makers.piano, a newsgroup, and one of the contributers to this forum is the inventor, Don Gilmore. If you have access to the Usenet newsgroups, a quick Google search will produce lots of information for you to wade through. While the basic theory is sound (so to speak), there seem to be some technical hurdles to overcome. For example, the agraffes have to be made of some sort of composite material to avoid grounding the strings. This could potentially affect the tone and/or sustain. There are also some questions as to whether or not heating and cooling strings over an extended period of time will cause them to lose tone prematurely, particularly the bass strings. Lastly, the initial tuning, which is set at the factory, still depends on the skill of a technician doing an aural or electronic tuning, with all the variables that come with that, and might not be easily changed in the field to account for any octave stretching or other changes one might wish to make in the tuning. Having said all that, it will be interesting to see what this system actually can or can't do. Stay tuned! Best wishes, Tom -- Tom Seay Piano Tech Office School of Music The University of Texas at Austin (512) 232-2072 mailto:t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
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