Speaking of positive comments, would you be so kind as to answer three questions. One, why are you so against learning to tune aurally? Second, when you sing barbershop, do you use an ETD to stay in tune, or do you use your ears? Third, you tune unisons by ear, and you check octaves by ear at the end of a tuning. Doesn't that bother you? After all, you have to listen to the beats. How awful that must be for you. Speaking of tuning octaves, maybe I'm not as good as you, but often times when I check a note by playing it with one an octave lower, it sounds OK. But when I check that same note with a note two octaves down, and especially two octaves and a third down, I can hear that the note is not in tune. Why do you suppose that is? (Oh I'm sorry that makes 4 questions). Wim -----Original Message----- From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 4:32 pm Subject: [pianotech] Thanks and further comments I was going to say out of this, however, in the light of positive omments, respect and trust, coming from James Grebe, Dean May, Bill ritz and Gerald Groot....... I just had to say a huge, huge thank you. Lastly, over 90% of my - first - time customers have not had their ianos tuned somewhere between - 2 - to - 25 years. And anywhere between 50 cents - to - 300 cents flat - and - cents even confuses me at imes, so anywhere between - a whole step flat - to - 3 whole steps flat. So are you aural tuners going to tell me - that - in - one - pass - with checks - can make this piano sound reasonably good to the customer - y mind says "NO WAY" Speaking of - checks - in the beginning, I once tuned a piano that was early 300 cents flat. As I started from A0 and kept going up the scale, - would - do some checks - which sounded horrible. My mentor said trust me, by the time you get to the end, it will change enough on its wn to sound really good." Sure enough, by the time I was done, in - one - pass, the checks sounded retty descent and the overall tuning was pretty damn good. Duaine -- uaine Hechler iano, Player Piano, Pump Organ uning, Servicing & Rebuilding eed Organ Society Member lorissant, MO 63034 314) 838-5587 ahechler at att.net ww.hechlerpianoandorgan.com - ome & Business user of Linux - 11 years -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110202/a5a3e30a/attachment-0001.htm>
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