The shadow knows

[Dave Smith]

This seems like an episode of Science Fiction Theater from 1950.  Heightened 
perception in an otherwise normal (?) human from ingesting some herbal 
remedy from long ago.  May the mood be with you, Ron.

Dave Smith
SW FL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <Pianotech at ptg.org>; <Caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:04 PM
Subject: The shadow knows


>
> Tuning a "new" university sale Yamaha GC1 Disklavier (naturally) this 
> morning, sitting there in direct sunlight (naturally) in a new house 
> (naturally), I (oddly) noticed something. Since I was stuck in the sun, I 
> got to watching the string shadows as I pulled the unisons in. I could see 
> the difference as they came in tune with one another. The first two 
> strings were just generally fuzzy and dim, then darkened and sharpened as 
> they phased together. Cool! The third string was dim and fuzzy, without 
> bothering the other two, then sharpened and darkened as it came in tune. 
> One string out of tune to the other two also pulsed visibly with the beat. 
> Way cool! This worked best around octave four, but that may just be 
> because that's where I could see it best.
>
> I know, I'm easy, but hey! I need *something* to entertain myself with 
> when I'm tuning, and I don't often get shadows that intense. I ended the 
> tuning in a much better mood than I started.
> Ron N