Don: I have to ask, why 443? dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Don Mannino Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:09 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Congratulations to Don Mannino Jim, Kawai will be sending an MPA to Utah for this visit. :-) I am not the only non-Japanese MPA, as there are some in other countries as well. Other techs can go take the test if approved, but I wouldn't recommend it - it's not an enjoyable experience, and I'm not sure there would be much benefit to it at this time unless one is actively working with a Shigeru Kawai dealer. We're working on a plan, though, to sort out how to have more from the US and Canada take the test. Some year - ? I would need to pre-train for a week here in California before subjecting anyone to the test in Japan. As Fred mentioned, the Pianotek .001 punchings just weren't fine enough. Actually they use thin punchings that are about .003, and they work OK but if the key ends up slightly high (for the test) you have to then squeeze the key down afterwards and compress the felt punching a little. They were kind enough to let me use a special jig for this, and it works well. I am not sure how stable it is, but it got me through the test with no points off on the key level / spacing / tilt area. They do use this technique in the Shigeru Kawai final regulation, though, and the keyboard level on these pianos is very stable from my observations. Another annoying side of the test was that I haven't convinced them yet that the results of the tuning mean more than how it is achieved. They still have strictly aural tuning as a requirement, so RCT was used to set the A to 443, then put away. Don Mannino ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Busby Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 9:23 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Congratulations to Don Mannino Congratulations Don! Does this mean you won't be coming to Utah in two weeks? <G> Jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100329/02536bd5/attachment.htm>
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