When all is said and done and the piano is built, it will be a Story & Clark piano... David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Bill Ballard <yardbird@pop.vermontel.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:38:27 -0400 Subject: Re: self tuning piano???? >At 8:38 AM -0400 7/3/02, Jon Page wrote: >>If it is tuned in the factory, only a factory specialist will be >>qualified to tune it once the tuning gets really of whack. >>Imagine the price tag that service will bring. >At 8:50 PM -0400 7/1/02, Bill Ballard wrote: >>That's when the regional airport limo brings in the Factory Re-Tuner >>(accept no substitutes), to do a >manual tuning (again, locked upon >>completion). >At 8:38 AM -0400 7/3/02, Jon Page wrote: >>I wonder if there will be the offshoot tuning aid. On rmmp >>he also talked of a unit which can be used on any piano. >>This unit had a pickup for each wire and magnetically >>attached itself to adjacent strings. The piano owner turns the >>pin until the display is flat (bars ascending or decending from zero). >>Move the pickup over one unison, set the display to zero. >You're not describing an thermal tuning but a mechanical one. And if >it really is no more than a visual indicator for the tone deaf (with >goose-neck hammer and mutes tossed in), that's a pretty dumb idea >compared to Gilmore's thermal tuner. The only difference between this >set-up and equipping yourself with the current ETDs is that the ETDs >take to acoustic sound in and run it through a digital Signal >Processor, where as this read the string's motion electromagnetically. >What is "rmmp"? It seems to be a second source for details on the >Gilmore/QRS system. Is this where the promise that this piano can >still be manually tuned comes from (in contradiction to Gilmore's own >PTJ article)? Also the business about Delrin aggrapphes? >>The piano can be tuned in twenty minutes. It only samples the >>fundamental because the other >>harmonics are not needed according to the inventor. >Yeah, right. Sounds like another instance of an inventor having >steadfastly refused to inform himself of the real facts of pianos. >>I think it will give a whole new >>meaning to tuning instability to a new group of pin benders. >It may just prove that the market to be cornered by making human >piano tuners obsolete is not big enough to make it a worthwhile >business venture. >Bill Ballard RPT >NH Chapter, P.T.G. >"A jester unemployed is nobody's fool." > ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester" >+++++++++++++++++++++
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