My favorite tools: Pin Vise Voicing Tool

The December 2011 issue of the Piano Technicians Journal has a short explanation of this voicing technique in the Tools Tips and Techniques section of the magazine. It also contains a longer, feature article that provides more detail

Fringe Piano Science (5): The "E Piano." From the recently discovered papers of P.D.Q. Bart.

From the recently discovered papers of P.D.Q. Bart.

For the entire fringe science series videos click here.

So, you want to be a piano technician: Can you hear the necessary things? (1)

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.

Excerpt from the first movement.

Major conductor, orchestra, pianist and record label.

Something is amiss.

Listen carefully.

Can you hear it?

What's the problem?

(Note: The problem may also be heard clearly on the CD as well as the original Stereo LP.)

So you want to be a piano technician, PART 2 is here:

So, you want to be a piano technician PART 2



Link to the discussion on part 1 and the identity of the recording is here:

Piano World Tuner-Technician Forum 

The Piano vs. the Keyboard.

The Piano

A Noble Art : Three Lectures on the Evolution and Construction of the Piano (Fanny Morris Smith 1892)

                A Noble Art                 
Three lectures on the Evolution and Construction of the Piano
by Fanny Morris Smith.

Published 1892

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A Noble Art

 

 

(For general interest only. Not a recommendation. In the public domain)

The Pianoforte, its origin, progress, and construction (Rimbault 1860).

 

 

 

 

 

The Pianoforte, its origin, progress, and construction
By Edward F. Rimbault  (ca.1860)  

 

             

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The Pianoforte, its origin, progress and construction (Rimbault 1860)

(For general interest only. Not a recommendation. In the public domain)

 

An Integrated-circuit Piano Tuner for the Equal-tempered Keyboard employing a tuneable fixed-coefficient digital filter (Hagee ca.1969)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               

Published 1969 by  Michael William Hagee
         

About the Book
 

A study of the physics of the piano reveals that while the upper partials of the steel strings are the eigen-frequencies of the complex tone, they are not integer multiples of the respective fundamentals. To properly measure and tune these eigen-partials, a digital filter capable of sweeping a major portion of the audio-frequency spectrum had to be implemented. Such a filter, a tuneable fixed-coefficient digital filter, is discussed as well as a simple pole-zero design procedure for determining the required coefficients. Each module, including the frequency deviation detector and counter, the time-base generator, the digital filter, the reference frequency generator and the display and control module, of the proposed tuner is illustrated and discussed.

 

 

 

 

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An integrated-circuit piano tuner

 

 

(For general interest only. Not a recommendation. In the public domain)