That strange, Bert. I'm in Nebraska and received the January issue late last week! you might want to call the home office on this one. Paul From: Albert Picknell <agghubii at yahoo.ca> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 01/07/2011 02:28 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast... I'm still waiting for my December 2010 issue. This has become ridiculous. For the last several months now I've been receiving each month's issue the following month - sometimes as late as the middle of the month. Anybody know what's going on with this? Bert --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net> wrote: From: Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast... To: caut at ptg.org Received: Friday, January 7, 2011, 9:17 AM That would be January 2011. br ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Farris" <Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Friday, January 7, 2011 6:47:46 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Journal Article Thank You! How Fast... Which issue of the Journal is this article in? Thanks, Jeff Farris UT Austin On 1/6/11 8:16 PM, "Diane Hofstetter" <dianepianotuner at msn.com> wrote: > > Yesterday I had to tune as many practice room pianos as possible in a > specified time frame. They had to be stable, something I have been struggling > with for a year now. (I now have one year's data on humidity inside the > pianos and proof positive that they are not being properly controlled. In > addition, they are new pianos with too few initial tunings.) > > I had just enough time before leaving for the job to speed read "How Fast is > Fast?" by Alan Zajicek, RPT and Ed Sutton, RPT. I noted down their sequence > and tried it--throughout the treble of the piano, not just the mid-range. > > It was an amazing experience. I didn't speed tune, but tuned with a LOT LESS > STRESS! The biggest effect it had was to change something inside me. > Concentrating on following their sequence, I didn't even notice until after > the fact, that I tuned all the unisons aurally--including C-88. > > Then there was the sound disconnect inside me, when I skipped unisons whie > tuning ascending, skipping every other note. At first, it sounded like all my > unisons were dramatically sharp :-) > Of course! Then I realized I had to listen differently, not in the automatic > way to which I had become accustomed. > > Unisons suddenly started popping into place--I couldn't even tell how it was > happening. > > I had to do pitch raises and tunings on each of the pianos. There was less > work to do on the final tunings. > > I can't wait until next month! > > THANK YOU, ALAN AND ED! > > Diane Hofstetter Jeff Farris Piano Technician School of Music UT Austin jfarris at mail.utexas.edu 512-471-0158 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110107/a3508890/attachment.htm>
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