Hey everybody, a lot has happened since I last updated the xanga world, and sooo I guess it is high time I posted. Firstly I got to see Ellen and my Bro Joe as well as old Verity friends at the Verity Christmas Banquet. We had a fab crazy fun time.
Ellen was very puwitty that night. =D
Crazy fun downtown.
Starbucks on Sunday.
Next in the news, to celebrate Turkey day, me and the little bro Joe sat out all night in front of Office Depot and got a screamin new desktop. 3 gigs of ram and a 320 gig hard drive. Yeah Baby!!! We were the first in line.
Me at home with our new bundle of joy. =D
The last thing to cover would be my piano tuning adventures. I have tuned 5 now and I put a video together of me tuning our mountain cabin piano which if you recall was vandalized along with the cabin a few months ago. We never found out officially who did it but we did get the piano completely restored so it will probably take a few tunings for the new strings to stop stretching, and for the tuning to hold. Here is the video, feel free to let me know how you think I am doing if you are a tuner or know something of the trade. I need all the feedback positive or negative I can get since I am basically learning it on my own, with the help of the Randy Potter course.
Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. Seeya next time.
Hey Jamers, interesting video... don't really have any words of wisdom for you or anything - I'm sure Randy's leading you down the right path. How much did your tuner thingy cost? And it runs on your Palm-type device? I just have a little electronic tuner that I set the temperment with, and then I tune the octaves by ear, so... sorta low-tech approach here. It would be nice to have the thing calculate how far to over-correct. Haha, I had to laugh when you said 15-30 cents was very flat... I did a piano a couple months ago that was about 200 cents off... ugh. I always get the lousy ones. It seems to me that your approach for the unisons would work okay... the only thing I would say is that I think tuning unisons by ear can improve your intonation when you're singing or playing other instruments like violin.
Isn't it fun when you get to the lower end? I always sort of have a sigh of relief - the light at the end of the tunnel feeling.... I think it is easier, too, because it seems like on the upper end smaller motions with the lever make bigger adjustments. I'm lacking the brain cells at the moment to decide if that makes sense or not, but I think it does... yes it does, because the higher wires have more tension on them. (I remember reading somewhere that if all the wires were calibrated to have the same tension as A-440, the highest string would be less an inch and the lowest string would have to be 22 feet long or something. Something close to that, anyway.) Anyway, there's a nice rambly comment for you.
Always enjoy the pics. Video was interesting for someone who knows Nothing about tuning. Hope you get helpful feedback like Emily's.
Awesome pics dude. I'll try and watch that video tomorrow.
Well, I went ahead and watched it tonight. That's a pretty cool gizmo you've got there. I tune entirely by ear, and I've never used any of those things. I would definitely recommend tuning your unisons by ear. I think you will find it will go faster and it will give you an opportunity to check 4ths, 5ths and octaves to make sure everything sounds right. There are some things that I might suggest, but it would be easier to show you. I'll have to think about how I would describe some other things. looks like you're doing well. Keep it up!
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Hey Jamers, interesting video... don't really have any words of wisdom for you or anything - I'm sure Randy's leading you down the right path. How much did your tuner thingy cost? And it runs on your Palm-type device? I just have a little electronic tuner that I set the temperment with, and then I tune the octaves by ear, so... sorta low-tech approach here. It would be nice to have the thing calculate how far to over-correct. Haha, I had to laugh when you said 15-30 cents was very flat... I did a piano a couple months ago that was about 200 cents off... ugh. I always get the lousy ones. It seems to me that your approach for the unisons would work okay... the only thing I would say is that I think tuning unisons by ear can improve your intonation when you're singing or playing other instruments like violin.
Isn't it fun when you get to the lower end? I always sort of have a sigh of relief - the light at the end of the tunnel feeling.... I think it is easier, too, because it seems like on the upper end smaller motions with the lever make bigger adjustments. I'm lacking the brain cells at the moment to decide if that makes sense or not, but I think it does... yes it does, because the higher wires have more tension on them. (I remember reading somewhere that if all the wires were calibrated to have the same tension as A-440, the highest string would be less an inch and the lowest string would have to be 22 feet long or something. Something close to that, anyway.) Anyway, there's a nice rambly comment for you.
Always enjoy the pics. Video was interesting for someone who knows Nothing about tuning. Hope you get helpful feedback like Emily's.
Awesome pics dude. I'll try and watch that video tomorrow.
Well, I went ahead and watched it tonight. That's a pretty cool gizmo you've got there. I tune entirely by ear, and I've never used any of those things.
I would definitely recommend tuning your unisons by ear. I think you will find it will go faster and it will give you an opportunity to check 4ths, 5ths and octaves to make sure everything sounds right.
There are some things that I might suggest, but it would be easier to show you.
I'll have to think about how I would describe some other things. looks like you're doing well.
Keep it up!