<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>There really is a relationship between beer and quality of tuning.</div><div>The more you drink the better it sounds. :)</div><div>Oppps.......no silliness here.......</div><div>Back to whacking each other with our temperament strips</div><div>And zapping each other with our machines.</div><div><br></div><div>I for one am going to work on gathering some seasonal data.</div><div>At this point for me seasonal harmonic changes and resultant tuning changes</div><div>Is just a hypothesis, at least if harmonic variations are measured and</div><div>vary seasonally, and this is shown repeatedly on a number of pianos, </div><div>it will be more then a hunch, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Deserve a full blown real test. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Same test team, same piano, same </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Number of beers. Two different times of year.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Hopefully the planets will be aligned the same also so were in the same gravitational </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Pocket. Can't control it all, but we do what we can. </span></div><div><br></div><div> Cheers</div><div> Dave Renaud </div><div><br><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 2012-05-15, at 10:05 PM, "Encore Pianos" <<a href="mailto:encorepianos@metrocast.net">encorepianos@metrocast.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">OK, so we’re all agreed? Limit’s ten beers tonight…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Will Truitt<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Kline<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] phenomana - experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 5/15/2012 5:57 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The only way it will mean anything is if it is done as a master tuning by a test committee on a piano previously tuned by a test committee as a master tuning at a significantly different RH%, and the recorded tunings compared. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">And, I presume, these two tunings are to be done by the SAME committee. Otherwise you've introduced a new variable other than humidity. And hopefully, none of them are hungover on those particular days, at least not unless they are always hungover the same amount. <br><br>Susan </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></body></html>