[CAUT] teaching piano tuning

[Mary Smith]

Dorrie,

Any idea how one might obtain a copy of that article? Do you have contact 
info for the Acoustical Society?

Thanks, Mary

At 04:39 PM 11/7/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, Kent and all --
>
>I should have finished the sentence to make my point clearer: I was
>thinking something along the lines of recording the waveforms and
>identifying which sorts of hammers (if any) created larger-amplitude
>resonances in the high overtones and which did not, for example. The
>professors' opinions would be a different sort of study.
>
>What prompted my thoughts were some articles I saw recently, studies of
>vibrational spectra created by different sorts of hammer felts done by
>Scandinavian scientists and published in the Journal of the Acoustical
>Society. My dad, who is a violin theoretician, is always sending me such
>articles and saying, I bet your friends have been talking about this
>interesting article! And in fact we mostly don't.
>
>I would think that if we were to propose a college/university level
>training, we would need to be developing such training with the purpose of
>advancing knowledge (someone else here just said that, I'm sorry I've
>forgotten who).
>
>JMHO --
>
>Dorrie Bell
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net>
> > To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> > Date: 11/7/2004 7:21:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CAUT] teaching piano tuning
> >
> > OK, so let's _get_ real. Finish the sentence. ""In a study of four
> > different voicing techniques carried out on pianos otherwise identical,
> > it was found that  33% of college university professors thought all the
> > techniques produced 'dreadful' results, 33% though all the techniques
> > produced 'magnificent' results, and 33% would offer no opinion until
> > they had heard all the opinions of all the other professors."
> >
> > The point is that I don't think all college level activity is expected
> > to follow the scientific method.
> >
> > Kent Swafford
> >
> >
> > On Nov 6, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Dorothy Bell wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > But to get real, I don't think that the college level is the place for
> > > piano tech as we now do it. We don't say things like, "In a study of
> > > four different voicing techniques carried out on pianos otherwise
> > > identical, it was found that . . . "
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