[pianotech] Idea for journal page, (Ed?)

[Dale Erwin]

 Hey Ed. 
Love it.... Ed for president!...uh never mind!
Brilliant idea. 




 Having your child try to learn on a out of regulation piano is like asking them to learn to drive in a 61 VW (or your insert your favorite car) with massive slop a in the steering, worn out brakes and an engine that cuts out when least expected. 
 Hey but its just a practice car, I mean piano.


Dale Erwin R.P.T.
Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.
 Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos
www.Erwinspiano.com
Phone: 209-577-8397

 
  





-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sat, Sep 8, 2012 7:44 am
Subject: [pianotech] Idea for journal page, (Ed?)


Greetings,
   Oh how the mind doth wander,drifting into idea-land as the 6th octave marches beneath our tuning hammer.  What wandered into mine this a.m. was an idea for a page in the Journal.  Depending on what our astute Mr. Sutton thinks best, it could be as short or as long as publication imperatives dictate.  It can be broadly based, easily edited and will write itself. 
    I would like to see a compilation of analogies.  Ones that we use in our work, with customers. Among us, I bet there are hundreds of them.    I imagine many of us that use the same ones, but I know there are some effective, off-the-wall explanations I would never have thought of, by myself.  If we compiled all the ones that successfully illustrate to the customer what their piano needs, we could all improve our marketing.
    They could be grouped by topic, ie,  analogies for pitch raises, another group for regulations, regular tuning, or voicing (a subject which lends itself to all sorts of comparisons; esoteric, esthetic, and otherwise).  Maybe a ground rule or two as we start,  to keep it simple and easy to edit.  Maybe, two lines per analogy, only, and we all agree to steal and be stolen from, plagiarising with impunity. If somebody has to keep their secret weapon secret, don't put it out there. 


  So,  here is two of mine that seem to connect the majority of the time. 
               Inre a pitch raise:  I frame it like trying to turn a rough pasture (their present condition), into a golf green(that velvety smoothness from clean octaves and unisons).  It simply can't be done in one pass.
 
Inre regulation: Trying to control an out of regulation piano is like trying to drive a car that only has half enough air in the tires.  You can get from one place to another, but not with any control, and it's work instead of fun.  
Just a thought...


Ed Foote RPT
http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html

 
 

 

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