<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font size="2"> Hey Ed. </font> <div><font size="2">Love it.... Ed for president!...uh never mind!</font> <div><font size="2">Brilliant idea. </font></div> <div><font size="1"><br> </font></div> <div><font size="1"><br> </font></div> <div><font size="1"> Having your child try to learn on a out of regulation piano is like asking them to learn to drive in a 61 VW (or your insert your favorite car) with massive slop a in the steering, worn out brakes and an engine that cuts out when least expected.</font><font size="2" style="font-weight: bold; "> </font></div> <div><font size="2"> Hey but its just a practice car, I mean piano.</font></div> <div><br> <div style="clear:both"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Ed Foote <a440a@aol.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, Sep 8, 2012 7:44 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] Idea for journal page, (Ed?)<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_b2112e61-3856-4de9-a740-2c3b48f96471"> <font color="black" size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Greetings,</font> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">   Oh how the mind doth wander,drifting into idea-land as the 6th octave marches beneath our tuning hammer.  What wandered into mine this a.m. was an idea for a page in the Journal.  Depending on what our astute Mr. Sutton thinks best, it could be as short or as long as publication imperatives dictate.  It can be broadly based, easily edited and will write itself. </font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">    I would like to see a compilation of analogies.  Ones that we use in our work, with customers. Among us, I bet there are hundreds of them.    I imagine many of us that use the same ones, but I know there are some effective, off-the-wall explanations I would never have thought of, by myself.  If we compiled all the ones that successfully illustrate to the customer what their piano needs, we could all improve our marketing.</font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">    They could be grouped by topic, ie,  analogies for pitch raises, another group for regulations, regular tuning, or voicing (a subject which lends itself to all sorts of comparisons; esoteric, esthetic, and otherwise).  Maybe a ground rule or two as we start,  to keep it simple and easy to edit.  Maybe, two lines per analogy, only, and we all agree to steal and be stolen from, plagiarising with impunity. If somebody has to keep their secret weapon secret, don't put it out there. </font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br> </font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">  So,  here is two of mine that seem to connect the majority of the time. </font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">               Inre a pitch raise:  I frame it like trying to turn a rough pasture (their present condition), into a golf green(that velvety smoothness from clean octaves and unisons).  It simply can't be done in one pass.</font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Inre regulation: Trying to control an out of regulation piano is like trying to drive a car that only has half enough air in the tires.  You can get from one place to another, but not with any control, and it's work instead of fun.  </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Just a thought...<br> </font><br> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; clear: both; "><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">Ed Foote RPT<br> <a href="http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html" target="_blank">http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</a></font></div> <div style="color: black; "> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_1417492e-7468-4a69-b9aa-8bd0f4f12486" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><pre><tt> </tt></pre> </div> </div> </div> </font> </div>  </div> </div> </div> </font>