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A modern method for all those who have ever wished they could tune their own piano.
Hello Everyone, I have been tuning pianos for 7 years and have come to realise that many people would love to be able to tune their own piano if only they knew how. Many books on the subject are complex and discuss the traditional tuning method of listening for beat ratios. While commendable if you can actually achieve these skills, few of us have the time and dedication to really do it. I laboured for two years, practicing every day to become proficient using the traditional method and while I did achieve a measure of success, I always felt the need to check my work against a reliable pitch reference. Some days I would tune better than others and I thought-why was this so? Was it me? Was it the piano? Eventually I realised that it was a combination of both. Sometimes I could not determine the correct beats and had to make a best compromise and this was even on the same piano! It was often frustrating to complete a tenor temperament and then check the tune with intervals and find it was not perfect. This required extra work to correct. I even borrowed the 'Conn Tuner' from my piano tuning teacher to compare. My teacher would also check me and point out the subtle errors. There had to be a better way! Being from an electronics background I checked the price of existing tuning references and the prices were way more than I could afford at the time. I therefore set about designing and building my own custom electronic tuner. During this time I investigated the possibility of using the highly accurate frequency generation within computers. I soon discovered that others had seen this potential as well and written software to take advantage of it. After experimenting with this approach it was obvious that here was the number one replacement for the tradional beat ratio method. It was simple, easy to learn and highly accurate. The temperament (middle octave) could be set once only and it would be perfect. I have used this method for 7 years with great success and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to tune pianos. Recently I decided to write an ebook that would tell anyone how to tune their piano - have a look at this...
Whenever I tuned pianos in customers homes I was always amazed how interested they were in what I was doing. For years the art of piano tuning has been perceived as a mysterious process and people have a natural curiosity to see what a tuner does. Once they learn of the special hearing skills, years of training and strange looking tools they think they could never do that. But they are wrong, YOU CAN DO IT! People are often surprised and overwhelmed to see their piano dissassembled so quickly with all its complex mechanisms exposed. You can learn this in a flash! But now it is not necessary to learn these hearing skills to a level any where near where you may think. Using new, modern techniques my ebook can teach how to do it in a few hours. This is a real skill you can use for years to come. To enable everyone to afford to tune their own piano successfully and accurately I have priced my ebook at US$19.95.
You can download it immediately upon payment using PayPal. Regards, Peter Gardner prolgard@gmail.com To order online through a secure server click on the PayPal buy button: ![]() © PROLGARD 2007/www.instantbizstuff.com
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