<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT><br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px"><PRE><TT>I just don't think it is necessary to drive myself totally nuts, just to figure out which chord is beating faster or slower - and - counting the beats !!!!!</PRE></TT></BLOCKQUOTE></div> <div>That's a shame Duaine, that listening to beats drives you nuts, because listening to the beats, and making slight corrections to make the piano "sing", is what makes my job fun. If all I had to do was make the lights stop, tuning a piano would be very boring, and that would probably drive me nuts. To each his own, I guess</div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> <div>Wim </div> </div> <div> </div> <div>PS. regarding David's comments. There us some validity to what he is saying, but that is not what this discussion has been about. <br> <br> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, May 10, 2012 9:10 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Old can of worms (was Re: tunelab vs verituner)<br> <br> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_2ea0aef0-f7f8-4828-ab92-1b46a4e8fdf0><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>On 05/11/2012 12:17 AM, <A href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</A> wrote: > > SO, YES, PEOPLE, I do do a certain amount of checks - just not specifically the > "aural tuning" checks. > > Duaine > > Well Duanie, what do you think you're listening to when you tune an octave? Don't you "here" a wow wow of some sort? > I'm not sure if you realize it, but that is what we refer to as the beats. > <snip> > Maybe the reason you can't "here" the beats is because you don't know what to listen for. Play a C3 -0 E3 third, > and tell me what you hear. If the piano is tuned properly, it's called the natural vibrato of the piano. > Wim YES, I HERE THE BEATS. I just don't think it is necessary to drive myself totally nuts, just to figure out which chord is beating faster or slower - and - counting the beats !!!!! From here, refer to David Love's post. He sums it up nicely. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 <A href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</A> <A href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com/" target=_blank>www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</A> -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years </TT></PRE></div> </div> </font>