I wonder if someone could put the first few bars of this "exercise" down on staff paper as I can make no sense out of the "wording." I don't know how you would print it out in this format, but would be interested in seeing it done anyway. Phil Ryan Miami Beach, FL pryan2@the-beach.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <RustRazor@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Tuner tunes > In a message dated 12/30/00 1:56:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, Jim writes: > > << > One day after playing the C Maj. the lady of the house entered and said: > "Oh, do you play? I felt a little put down at the time, I thought I played > pretty well, > but now that I think about it, maybe she had something else in mind. > >> > > She might have meant "Do you play professionally or for parties?" I do and > have played parties for several of my clients. Music and piano tuning > compliment each other as occpations that way. Teaching piano would work that > way as well, but I can't be bothered to teach...it doesn't pay enough. > > Jim also said: > > << > > Here's one which I found in a piano tuning instruction book many years ago. > Play a C octave with left hand and E, G, Bb in the right hand. As the bass > changes downward by 3 separate half steps, raise the top note one half > step at a time for 3 changes. Then raise the middle note for three half > step changes as the Bass continues to go down by 3 more separate half > steps. Then raise the lower note of the right hand a half step at a time > for 3 changes. As the Bass keeps lowering by half steps, you can repeat > the right hand changes starting over again with changes of the top note. > Keep doing this until you run out of keys and you will have checked out > the whole piano. > >> > > That routine is called the omnibus. It goes back to around the time of > Chopin and Beethoven. Actually I believe it may have been created by one of > them. The way I learned it was to start with an E minor traid with the right > hand and B octave with the left and proceed as you describe above. > > Matt in NY >
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