This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I am a piano technician who is a machine assisted professional = associate. Were you going to skip straight from amateur to RPT? Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Andrew & Rebeca Anderson" <anrebe@zianet.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:25 AM Subject: Re: Verituner > Dan, > As a tuner working to progress from machine assisted amateur associate = to=20 > an RPT I have found earplugs very helpful in sorting out what partials = I=20 > need to be working with in order to lay the bearings by ear. I heard = too=20 > many (some faint) to decide which to work with before that. Guy = Nichols=20 > recommends Ear Filters which are utilized by hearing conscious rock=20 > musicians (there are a few). These apparently successfully reduce = decibel=20 > levels without overly compromising sound detail. They are generally a = > special order item at your local electric guitar and drum store. I = didn't=20 > get them ordered in time for a week long tuning gig I did in an = unserved=20 > corner of Texas where all the pianos required pitch-raises (10-120=20 > cents). After the first day I went to the local drug store in = desperation=20 > and bought regular ear plugs figuring I would remove them for the fine = > tuning pass. I could hear the fundamentals loud and clear and the = lower=20 > partials so I risked it and kept them in for the second pass. I = always=20 > remove them for a last playing pass of chromatic scales of thirds, = fourths=20 > and fifths. I was surprised how few of the unisons I did retouch. I = still=20 > have to order those darn ear-filters though. You'd think a piano = supply=20 > house would pick them up. >=20 > Andrew > Las Cruces, NM >=20 > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/db/55/3e/b2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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