Piano Tuning A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 1975
- Softcover
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Paperback copy with sound binding and clean pages. Few dog eared pages. Cover have some scratches, rubbed edges, and bumped corners. Front cover is slightly warped. ; Dover Books on Music; 7.90 X 5.30 X 0.60 inches; 201 pages.
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- Title
- Piano Tuning A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
- Author
- Fischer, J. Cree
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486232670
- ISBN 13
- 9780486232676
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From the Back Cover
If you have a note that has dropped in pitch, do you have to call in the tuner? A stuck key? Sympathetic rattle? Missing bridles? A broken hammer shank? An unglued ivory? The answer, in each case, is no: you can make all of these repairs yourself!
This is the clearest and most complete book available for beginning tuners and amateur pianists. It explains all the basic processes practically and with model clarity. A non-musician can use this book without too much difficulty.
You will learn how upright, grand, and square actions work, and how to take care of the smallest repairs -- repairing stuck keys, poorly adjusted bottoms and capstans, crowded back checks, felts and leather on the hammers, hammer stems; softening damper and hammer felts; installing new bridles; eliminating "sympathetic rattle"; all with a minimum of tools and training.
You will learn a professional method of tuning based on slightly flattened fifths, where only the octave and the upward fifth intervals are used. This is one of the easiest systems to learn, one capable of a great deal of control, and one perfectly suited to adjusting one or two keys. It is a tested method especially right for amateurs working without a teacher, and a method that trains the ear for other recommended systems. The author also explains "beats," the theory of the tempered scale, and useful experiments you can make with harmonic phenomena.
If you want to experiment with tuning a piano, there is no better book to start with. It will help performers and teachers make occasional repairs and learn the structure and scale of the piano. Those who want to know how pianos work will find this book both clear and useful.
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