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    Theory and Practice of Piano Tuning Brian Capleton

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    The piano tuner's work is one of the most misunderstood professions. To laypeople, it seems they are simply listening to notes and adjusting string tensions, but their work is actually just as technical and invisible as what a computer technician does. Most musicians have little understanding of how tuners achieve the necessary results. The traditional theory of beats described in textbooks only touches on the surface of a tuner's true art, which is known to experienced tuners.

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    Theory and Practice of Piano Tuning Brian Capleton

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    The piano tuner's work is one of the most misunderstood professions. To laypeople, it seems they are simply listening to notes and adjusting string tensions, but their work is actually just as technical and invisible as what a computer technician does. Most musicians have little understanding of how tuners achieve the necessary results. The traditional theory of beats described in textbooks only touches on the surface of a tuner's true art, which is known to experienced tuners.

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    The piano tuner's work is one of the most misunderstood professions. To laypeople, it seems they are simply listening to notes and adjusting string tensions, but their work is actually just as technical and invisible as what a computer technician does. Most musicians have little understanding of how tuners achieve the necessary results. The traditional theory of beats described in textbooks only touches on the surface of a tuner's true art, which is known to experienced tuners.

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    Theory and Practice of Piano Tuning Brian Capleton

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    The piano tuner's work is one of the most misunderstood professions. To laypeople, it seems they are simply listening to notes and adjusting string tensions, but their work is actually just as technical and invisible as what a computer technician does. Most musicians have little understanding of how tuners achieve the necessary results. The traditional theory of beats described in textbooks only touches on the surface of a tuner's true art, which is known to experienced tuners.

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    The

    piano tuner-technician's work is


    possibly one of the most misunderstood of all
    professions. To the layperson, the tuner at
    work seems to be involved in something that
    is perhaps technically quite complicated in its
    procedure, but is in essence transparent -
    he/she is listening to notes and putting them
    'into tune', by adjusting the string tensions.
    This much appears to be obvious - but as is so
    often the case, all is not quite what it seems.

    El trabajo del tcnico afinador de pianos


    es posiblemente una de las profesiones
    menos comprendidas. Para el no entendido,
    el trabajo de un afinador parece ser realizar
    un procedimiento que tal vez sea
    tcnicamente complejo, pero que en esencia
    es transparente: l escucha las notas y las
    afina, ajustando la tensin de las cuerdas.
    Esto parece algo obvio, pero como ocurre con
    muchas cosas, no es tan sencillo.

    By contrast, consider the example of a


    computer technician. The computer
    technician servicing a computer is not only
    involved in something that seems technically
    complicated, but precisely what he/she is
    doing is not necessarily at all clear, to the
    uninitiated.

    Consideremos el ejemplo de un tcnico de


    computadoras. Al momento de realizar su
    trabajo no solo est involucrado en algo que
    parece tcnicamente complicado, sino que lo
    que est haciendo no es necesariamente claro
    para aqul que no es un especialista.

    The fact is, precisely what the piano tuner


    does is no more obvious than what the
    computer technician does. It only seems so.
    Apart from moving the tuning pins (wrest
    pins), what the piano tuner is actually doing
    is not only invisible, but inaudible to most
    people.
    It is probably true that most musicians
    have little or no idea how the tuner achieves
    the necessary results. Someone who knows
    something about theoretical acoustics,
    particularly about beats, may still be in the
    dark. The 'traditional' theory of beats that
    appears in specialist text books and then
    finds its way into more general circles, only
    touches the surface of the piano tuner's true
    art. Every artist tuner with years of
    experience knows this.
    Theory and practice of piano tuning
    Brian Capleton

    El hecho es que lo que el afinador de


    pianos hace no es ms obvio que lo que hace
    el tcnico de computadoras. Solo parece que
    as fuera. Aparte de mover las clavijas, lo que
    el afinador est haciendo no solo es
    prcticamente invisible, sino tambin
    inaudible para la mayora de la gente.
    Probablemente sea cierto que la mayora
    de los msicos tienen muy poco o ningn
    conocimiento respecto de cmo el afinador
    realiza su trabajo. Incluso alguien que sepa
    sobre acstica, particularmente sobre
    batidos,
    no
    necesariamente
    pueda
    comprender la complejidad del asunto. La
    teora tradicional de los batidos que figura
    en libros especializados y que encuentra su
    camino hacia crculos ms generales apenas
    toca la superficie del verdadero arte del
    afinador de pianos. Cada afinador artesano
    con aos de experiencia sabe esto.

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