From: David Renaud Perhaps it's a trick pin, windings running in the wrong directon. Pins with counterclockwise theads, custom built, for you, very special price. Cheers :) Dave Renaud From: Greg Torres In this very same movie Richard Dreyfus throws a fit about the 'voicing' on one particular piano he is playing...but the note is simply WAY out of tune...I guess Hollywood figured no one could tell the difference between voicing and a really bad unison...and sadly, for the most part they are right... Best, Greg Torres + + + + + Who says Hollywood knows anything about how pianos are put together or how they are serviced? For all we know the people who created these scenes don't know which way a tuning pin turns or the difference between tuning and voicing. Perhaps they don't even care to know because it might interfere with their ideas of how it should appear in the scenes described here. (Strange, considering the current obsession with "reality-based" programming ....) Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net + + + + + ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Driscoll To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: O.T. 'The Competition" List, Watching the movie "The Competition"-- A young pianist is checking the tuning on his practice piano, playing chromatically, all unisons perfect. Suddenly one note is way ,I mean WAY out. He stands up,reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a tiny tuning lever, looking somewhat like the size of those pinsetters w/ handles. He intuitively knows which string is flat and proceeds to pull the string right up in perfect unison ! The magic of the movies allowed this to happen while moved the pin in the wrong direction ! Tom Driscoll
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