The Seventh Dragon by Anita Sullivan, in a 2nd edition has been around for a long time, Brian. Paul In a message dated 3/14/2009 3:04:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, pianocare2 at bigpond.com writes: Hi David and others.. David, your first paragraph is inspiring. In my last post I gave examples of different thoughts of technicians and their personal view of how to achieve their goals. I am still wondering about my tuning example from yesterday as I seemed to perform the same tuning in two different ways. The open string method sounded better to me but it could have been job satisfaction and confidence in my work. I am intrigued on the “technique developed by Virgil” as we seem to give him credit for the idea, however I am sure it was happening here and in other countries. Virgil seems to have got the credit for the system, and I say good luck to him. I would still like a dollar for every time I have heard “my tuning process is the best ever, and the only way to perform it” There is a tuner here who advertises that he tunes “equal temperament with perfect fifths” Apparently he is the only qualified tuner around…… However…. In this thread I have noticed “flow, zone, leap of faith, believing in yourself, meditation, etc. I am now waiting for a book to come out…. “ Zen and the Art of Piano Tuning”…… Ha I wish to also add a little psychology and it comes from the practitioners of NLP. (well they claim ownership) The 4 parts of learning… 1. Unconscious incompetence, 2. conscious incompetence, 3. Conscious competence and 4. Unconscious competence. This can be applied to any human activity. Now thanks to David’s post, let’s not be influenced by the negative responses from others. Do it your way. If our peers complement us on our work, we must be on the right track. Regards Brian Wilson ____________________________________ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Andersen Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2009 4:07 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Aurally pure octaves On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:56 PM, _PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com_ (mailto:PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com) wrote: I figured that much of what is being said here is tempest in a teapot and largely semantic. I think that, if you go back to Virgils original claims, and see where they were coming from (the anti-science bias, etc.), he was tuning just I tune, and as you tune, and as all of us tune who are fine tuners (so self-proclaimed :-)) This is the central truth of our craft. Anyone who is a serious piano tuner uses their developed hearing skill in a global and multi-leveled way to get to the same place: a musical, soaring, stable, singing tuning. It doesn't ultimately matter one whit how you get there: ETD, non-ETD, ET or non-ET, strip, no strip, "partial matching," "whole-tone listening," light, stiff levers, heavy, even impact levers, sitting low, sitting high, "impact" or "jerk" or "wiggle" lever technique...the bottom line is this. Does it sound fantastic? That's all anybody really cares about, so I want to do it the way it's most fun and fulfilling for me, AND the most idealized and musical to my trained and demanding ears. Because my custom protocols have worked so well for me, I want to share them. I don't really care if you adopt them or not. I just want my colleagues to produce the finest tunings in the best way for them. David Andersen No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.10/1994 - Release Date: 03/13/09 18:00:00 **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220439616x1201372437/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090314/10601ae9/attachment-0001.html>
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