Having a decent piano is soooo important when you're learning to listen for beats! When I started out, I had a 1947 Aldrich consolette with an aluminum plate....very difficult to hear anything. However, since I was studying with Steve Brady in his Univ. of WA days, I had a host of practice pianos to work on....some were pretty good Steinway grands. I figured if I could tune an Aldrich or a practice room piano with all the extra noise, I could tune anything! (I also learned to drive on a '46 Willys jeep..same principle; If I could learn to drive that, I could drive anything!) Both came true!! :>) The fustration levels were very high during my first few months, though! Paul Paul, I had a similar experience.I was trying to learn on Aeolian and Laughead verticals that my late mentor Paul Hegent RPT was selling from his shop. I was very discouraged until we went to an very aging Florida resort hotel with a very aging 6' ish Sohmer. WOW ! The beats just jumped out at me! I still had no lever technique and I'm sure that tuning was at best passable but I had a better understanding of what to listen for. I also didn't hurt that I had 21 year old ears ! Tom Driscoll -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081223/3114ca62/attachment.html>
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