Wurlitzer spinets and false beats

[Avery]

Dave,

It's called the "point of diminishing returns" as a former Journal 
editor said.
There comes a time when no matter how long you spend on it, it 
"ain't" going to
get better!

Avery Todd

At 11:22 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote:
>Hello
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>     One eliment I am highly suspect of is the upper
>termination points in these economy pianos.
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>      No nice agraffs, or a clean polished
>steel bar, or clean smooth something, anything on the
>plate to terminate the string on the tuning pin side.
>Instead, bass strings wraped up to a 45 degree angle
>around hitch pins on a flattened mound of plate that
>is rough as sandpapper and fishined in(perhaps
>pealing)'insta-gold'. How can a painted sandpaper
>texture provide clean termination.
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>     It is what it is.
>     It aint what it ain't
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>     So I am learning to not listen for stuff
>that is not there. Knowing a pianos limits is
>not a cop-out, but improves my serice; because
>I spend my time on what does make a difference.
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>    An example from a recent tutoring session was
>a demo unision I was tuning. 10sec in I stopped,
>there was still a tiny movement in the tone. We
>measured the 3 strings and all strings were within one
>tenth of a cent of each other. Movement was clear in a
>couple of the single strings. This was as good as it
>would get. I could waste a min or 2 trying to clean
>the unision. It would not happen.
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>    One of the biggest lessons as I mature,
>is learning how far I can go, what is my
>resposibility, and what is the pianos. I want it
>within .1 cent, but knowing when I am there despite
>what I am hearing. Knowing when I have 6:3 in the
>bass, or whatever I am doing consistantly in the bass
>that day despite the other wildly spread harmonics on
>a cheap piano is challenging.
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>    Stop listening for stuff that is not there to get.
>Know the difference.
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>    Interesting, how, somehow with a note having 2
>false beats, I still found the center of the pitch
>with .1cent quickly. Not sure how that happens, and
>how we can hear having reached the end of
>possiblilities through junk, but there it is.
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>Searching for
>    Confidence balanced by humility.
>    Speed balanced with accuracy.
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>I think I tune these cheaper pianos better fast.
>I really do. Looking for stuff that is not there
>hurts my ablilty to focus on what I can do with
>it.
>                                      Cheers
>                                      Dave Renaud
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