Partial Explanation

[Barb Barasa]

>BTW Fred, I thoroughly enjoyed your class at Dearborn on partials. It was
>one of the highlights of the convention for me. I guess you could think of
>it as a "Partial Explanation" :-).
>
>Tom Seay, RPT
>
>Tom Seay
>School of Music
>The University of Texas at Austin

Fred Tremper and Allan Day were my two mentors.  Being a person who always
wants to know WHY (I can't imagine what I was like when I was 4 years old),
it was a good thing Fred taught me to tune.  If there was a book titled
"Everything You Wanted to Know about Partials but Were Afraid to Ask" Fred
would write it.  I simply could not accept expanding and contracting
intervals (especially being a violinist) "on faith."  I had to know WHY.
Now, when I have a customer who expresses interest in what an "in tune"
piano means, I give them my 5 minute rap on unisons, partials, intervals,
etc.  (more than THEY ever wanted to know).  Certainly gets me more respect!

So thanks, Fred!

(Allan, I will probably have to send a post some time on how many hammers I
had to ruin before I was turned loose on the world to file hammers ... which
I am now excellent at.  Nice of all those old pianos to donate their organs
to piano science!)

Barb Barasa