Tuner tunes

[pryan2]

I wonder if someone could put the first few bars of this "exercise" down on
staff paper as I can make no sense out of the "wording."  I don't know how
you would print it out in this format, but would be interested in seeing it
done anyway.

Phil Ryan
Miami Beach, FL
pryan2@the-beach.net



----- Original Message -----
From: <RustRazor@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Tuner tunes


> In a message dated 12/30/00 1:56:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, Jim writes:
>
> <<
> One day after  playing the C Maj. the lady of the house entered and said:
> "Oh, do you  play? I felt a little put down at the time, I thought I
played
> pretty well,
>  but now that I think about it, maybe she had something else in mind.
> >>
>
> She might have meant "Do you play professionally or for parties?"  I do
and
> have played parties for several of my clients.  Music and piano tuning
> compliment each other as occpations that way.  Teaching piano would work
that
> way as well, but I can't be bothered to teach...it doesn't pay enough.
>
> Jim also said:
>
> <<
>
>  Here's one which I found in a piano tuning instruction book many years
ago.
>  Play a C octave with left hand and E, G, Bb in the right hand. As the
bass
>  changes downward by 3 separate half steps, raise the top note one half
>  step at a time for 3 changes. Then raise the middle note for three half
>  step changes as the Bass continues to go down by 3 more separate half
>  steps. Then raise the lower note of the right hand a half step at a time
>  for 3 changes. As the Bass keeps lowering by half steps, you can repeat
>  the right hand changes starting over again with changes of the top note.
>  Keep doing this until you run out of keys and you will have checked out
>  the whole piano.
>   >>
>
> That routine is called the omnibus.  It goes back to around the time of
> Chopin and Beethoven.  Actually I believe it may have been created by one
of
> them.  The way I learned it was to start with an E minor traid with the
right
> hand and B octave with the left and proceed as you describe above.
>
> Matt in NY
>