self-tuning piano?

[tune4u@earthlink.net]

Yep, that's the plan. Make 'em in China, sell 'em through Wal-mart.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Alan Barnard
Surrendering in Salem, MO

----- Original Message -----
From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: self-tuning piano?


> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: self-tuning piano?
> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:29:14 -0600
>
> The self-tuning piano is a long way from production.
>
> I believe the inventor, Don Gilmore, is now an Associate member of PTG.
>
> Although there remain many questions to ask about the technology, the
> questions that I have heard being asked of the inventor were answered
quite
> competently indeed.
>
> The fact that the inventor is now a PTG member means that the development
of
> the self-tuning piano is being plugged into the general mainstream of
piano
> technology, which can only be a good thing. Don appears to be open to
> suggestions from the techs.
>
> If these pianos go into production, they will have at least a thousand
> dollars worth of extra stuff on them to do the self-tuning, stuff that
> someone will have to fix someday -- a piano tech perhaps?
>
> Kent Swafford
>
> Sounds like this guy is "infultrating" the PTG in order to gain as much
> "inside" knowledge as posiible to help him PUT US OUT OF BUSINESS! I know
> that isn't likely, at least not in the near future, but that's the plan,
> right; to make us OBSOLETE.
>
> Terry Peterson
>
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