ears vs. eyes..kinda long-winded

[David Ilvedson]

You know, Dave, you could call Jim Coleman up and take a little drive to Arizona.  He'd be glad to set you straight...;-]
Just kidding...I believe our own Richard Moody dropped in on Jim and tuned for him some time ago.  As I remember it
was a learning experience for a die-hard tuning fork tuner...not that he changed?  Hey, Richard...what say you?

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: David Andersen <bigda@gte.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>, <oleg-i@wanadoo.fr>
Received: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:33:15 -0700
Subject: RE: ears vs. eyes..kinda long-winded

>>Shouldn't there be somewhere a "living museum" tuner, who
>>never used the ETD, and therefore never was changed by
>>its particular biases and requirements?
>>
>>And I volunteer!
>>
>>Susan

>I volunteer as well, and I guess it's time to step up to the plate:  I
>think I can tune a piano so that it sounds measurably better than any
>straight machine tuning---even Jim Coleman's, or Rich Davenport's, or
>anyone else.  I'd love to have a chance to prove that to some of you
>lovely folks.
>My method is so dead simple; I spoke about it some months back, but I'll
>reiterate it---if ALL the fourths on the piano beat the same sweet, slow
>roll---around 1bps depending on the piano---you'll get the best ET tuning
>you have ever heard, with "perfect" contiguous thirds and "beatless"
>triple, quadruple, and even quintuple octaves; with completely pleasing
>and balanced major triads all the way up, with slightly different "color"
>and "emotion" in each key. You don't have to worry about partial
>matching, or listening to 3rds, 10ths, or 17ths---you just follow the
>fourths.  It seems to magically deal with and compensate for
>inharmonicity.

>How does it work?  I have no idea. I'm the farthest thing from a
>propellerhead you've ever seen.
>I just know that it blows even jaded pro pianists away 100% of the time.

>I'd be more than happy to demonstrate this protocol to any interested
>party, either here in LA, at the next
>California state convention, or at the national convention this summer.
>Email me privately to talk about it.

>The ear is what is ultimately our greatest gift, and our craft IS music.
>I never want to forget that, in the stress of running a business and
>providing for my family.

>David Andersen
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