Thanks for sharing Mike.
Watching that I was seriously thinking of a Baldwin Spinet Acrosonic that I tune once a year...
Marc
The Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make...
The Beatles/Abbey Road (The End)...1969
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, pianotech-request at ptg.org <pianotech-request at ptg.org> wrote:
From: pianotech-request at ptg.org <pianotech-request at ptg.org>
Subject: pianotech Digest, Vol 1, Issue 112
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 3:58 PM
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David M. Porritt, RPT
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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of paulrevenkojones at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:20 PM
To: tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net; pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] OFF topic
Unless you can see the joy in the world as it and you change and you learn to enjoy adapting to it! I'm personally having a terrific time getting older--arthritis, sciatica, eye and dental issues, male pattern everything, all that aside! The world is such a strange and wonderful place, and what a hoot to be a part of it with the obligation of creating more joy and love in it.
Paul
Getting older is no fun.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 7:50 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] OFF topic
It's happening to me. I'm starting to hear things a half step sharp! Used to
be, after taking out the temperament strip, I'd never look at the keys as I went
up or down the keyboard chromatically, because I knew where I was. Now I find
myself reaching for that Db, and then realizing that the C that I just tuned was
actually a B!
I used to be able to tell what keys songs on the radio were in. Now, I have to
wonder...did the Beatles really play that in the key of Ab? Then I think, it's
probably in G, and I'm just hearing sharp again.
This is like losing your sight or not being able to walk without a cane any
longer. It's jarring. It's depressing. Getting older is no fun.
Tom Sivak
Chicago
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> wrote:
> From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] OFF topic
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 11:13 AM
> Gary Bruce wrote:
> > Never heard of that one before. How do you know she
> heard an E-flat?
> >
> > On Mon, November 24, 2008 7:08 pm, Leslie Bartlett
> wrote:
> >> I tuned today for a musician, in her 60's,
> outstanding as pianist,
> >> organist, composer. She said she had very good
> pitch in younger years,
> >> but now she hears everything a half step flat.
> Playing a few notes on
> >> piano, and sure enough, playing an E she heard
> E-flat, and so forth.
> >>
> >> Anyone had experience with this king of thing?
> >> les bartlett
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Gary Bruce, RPT
> > Bruce Musical Services, Inc.
> > a440 at brucemusical.com
> >
> >
>
> What was the actual pitch of the instrument? Had a
> previous tuner tuned
> the beastie a half step flat because the pins wouldn't
> hold any higher????
>
> --
> Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Takats" <geotak at magma.ca>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:58 PM
Subject: [pianotech] (no subject)
If you have 7 minutes and 49 seconds to spend, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YiMWvl7as0
Mike Kurta, RPT
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