Tuneoff

[David Ilvedson]

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David I.


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On 9/13/01 at 9:58 AM Duplexdan@AOL.COM wrote:

>Gentlemen,
>
>The tuneoff challenge should always be fair, so I am offering a
>consideration 
>that may make it fairer than the Orlando tuneoff in which Virgil's piano
>was 
>so far ahead in the voting it seemed like Jim was riding a horse with
>three 
>legs. 
>
>The reason, we suspect, that Virgil's piano received more than 70 % of the

>votes in all categories may be attributeable to one difference between the

>Kawaii's , which incidentally were almost identical in age style, serial 
>number , etc.and were carefully selected for that reason.
>
>And that difference was, strange as it might seem, that the Duplex Scale
>in 
>the wayoutfront winner was in PERFECT TUNE. It was the only one of the
>four 
>in perfect tune. And it is consistent with Duplexology that the runner up 
>piano, tuned by JC had the Duplex Scale partially in tune. In the other
>two 
>pianos, the Duplex Scale was considerably off in all sections of the
scale.
>
>Let's be fair. If the pianos in the tuneoff are going to be equal, and all

>have duplex scales, they should all be tuned correctly.
>
>Looking forward to the Challenge,
>
>Dan Franklin, RPT