<html><body> <DIV>c# c sharp, </DIV> <DIV>Bb b flat </DIV> <DIV>I've seen this abbreviation , BBW somewhere.</DIV> <DIV>Marshall</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com> > <<MHO: > IMHO: In my humble opinion > YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary > DAMHIK: Don't ask me how I know > FWIW: for what its worth > BTW: By the way>> > > > JWTWDSAAQUTSA!: Just write the whole damn sentence and quit using these > stupid Abbreviations already! > > Terry Peterson > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Dean May" <DEANMAY@PIANOREBUILDERS.COM> > Reply-To: deanmay@pianorebuilders.com, Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> > To: "'Pianotech'" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> > Subject: RE: Cracking the unisons > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:34:15 -0500 > > MHO: my humble opinion > IMHO: In my humble opinion > YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary > DAMHIK: Don't ask me how I know > FWIW: for what its worth > BTW: By the way > Ssssnnnn: Susan wanting to take a nap ;-) > > There are others. > > Dean > Dean May cell 812.239.3359 > PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 > Terre Haute IN 47802 > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On > Behalf Of pianotune05@comcast.net > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:40 AM > To: Pianotech > Subject: Re: Cracking the unisons > > Ok, so what exactly are we saying in this post Susan? on and on and > on...:) > Marshall > ps what is MHO, or is it HMO or planned provider? :) > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Susan Kline <SKLINE@PEAK.ORG> > > > At 10:13 PM 1/5/2006 -0800, you wrote: > > >Sometimes I don't hear the 1 > > >cent error, especially in upper octaves. > > > > Me either, and there, I think, lies an opportunity. > > > > Consider the "errors" which a tuning must accommodate, > > both in the tempering of intervals and in the inharmonicity > > and difficult timbre unevenness inherent in all pianos, > > especially those which are -- less than perfect. > > > > But it's all less than perfect. > > > > We can nudge everything, because there's a margin of > > error in our hearing, and in that of even our keen-eared > > customers. We can rob a little here, and put it over > > there, and (for example) get rid of that one nasty > > fourth ! where there's that break between the wound and > > unwound tenor. Never mind that an octave may compress > > a little, and some fast-beating intervals wouldn't > > measure up quite according to Hoyle. > > > > Be glad that we don't have to pay attention only to > > what an electronic machine tells us. Instead, we get > > to go to the source, the sound itself, and impose our > > value judgments onto it. Why do people who tune with > > an ETD do the unisons without it? Because that fudge > > factor works in our favor, giving us control of tone > > quality in a way which "exact" frequency control > > doesn't. > > > > Truth be told, I think that a lot of aural tuning, > > especially by people like Virgil, incorporates "errors" > > a lot bigger (MUCH bigger) than one cent, in the > > service of the whole musical sound. > > > > Just MHO. > > > > ssssssssnnn > > > > ___! ____________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>