I second that motion.. You are making me thirsty. and the bars are open here right now! Thank you for understanding. I already knew that you can tune well. However I find it difficult to promote myself. That last post was so difficult to write. First I tried not to insult anyone and secondly not to brag about myself. We both achieve tunings that are respected by our peers and our clients. I thought that is what I am been trying to point out. You describe yourself as a piano geek. I'm a nerd. Since my last post and my early morning tuning, I rang several technicians that are highly respected in their areas. All perform concert work etc. The answer to this first topic was yes. 4ths increase in speed. In fact one questioned my sanity for asking this question (so do I every day). This tech also referred me to a text book and quote "interval rates must increase in speed as the frequency rises" So it seems that our teaching methods and ideas differ... That is the subject that I find so interesting.. Sounds like a good convention topic. I hope most readers can understand the ever so slight difference in our tunings.. if my first 4th beats at 0.78 beats per second, and yours is 1.0 beats per second. That is certainly not worth getting hot under the collar about, nor for me to be told that what I perform is impossible. There are many more like me... Kind regards Brian _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Andersen Sent: Monday, 9 February 2009 7:42 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] California State Convention On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: I would really like to come to the conference first to meet you, and then for a discussion and getting into these trivial matters that really have no importance to whats important in life. Hey, Brian----I'm sure we would have much more in convergence than divergence in person. In fact I've only met one person from your end of the world over 35 years---and I've met dozens and dozens---who struck me as anything but a good-hearted, straight-ahead individual. And, by your latest post, you're probably one of the top-notch guys in your area, and I'm certain your tunings are first-rate, solid, musical, and excellent. Mine are, too. How you or I get to that beautiful tuning is interesting and fascinating to us because we're both hopeless piano geeks (a term of high endearment) but it's not intrinsically important to the artist or the listener. Or, ultimately, to us. What matters is the result. It's all conversation until we hear each other's work. I'd love to come to Australia; I love it there. I'm sure we'll see each other somewhere down the road, where there's a piano, some peace and quiet, and an adult beverage or two. Cheers, Brian.... David A. Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1929 - Release Date: 4/02/2009 4:35 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090209/e1edf92b/attachment.html>
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