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Very cool!
My score was -44%. I think that's worse than my Gr. 9 Phys.-Ed. class mark:)
Man, I have the utmost admiration for what you technicians do. It really IS and art form unto itself.
Thanks for posting this.
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Thank you for the post, Mark.
This will make an impression on any player about the complexities that piano tuners deal with on a daily basis.
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Not to slightly hijack this thread, but when I saw the word "pianist" in the thread subject my first reaction was "that doesn't refer to me".
As a one year student currently at Elementary D level, I don't think I qualify. I wonder what other folks think?
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I know a piano professor at Julliard who decided to have a go at tuning his own piano. It didn't work out very well!
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Piano Tuning Pedagogy is not a popular field, and as such, has not received the rigour that it deserves.
The variation in teaching methods is huge, and the success rate of finding a match between teacher and student is not easy.
Hey. It sounds like piano lessons!
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Very cool!
My score was -44%. I think that's worse than my Gr. 9 Phys.-Ed. class mark:)
Man, I have the utmost admiration for what you technicians do. It really IS and art form unto itself.
Thanks for posting this. The algorithm has nine recordings. Recording number 5 is 100%. Because of the low tolerance of the PTG tuning exam, the neighbouring recordings score around -40%. Be glad you didn't get -643%! You were one recording off of 100%. Good for you.
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Not to slightly hijack this thread, but when I saw the word "pianist" in the thread subject my first reaction was "that doesn't refer to me".
As a one year student currently at Elementary D level, I don't think I qualify. I wonder what other folks think?
The funny thing is, I originally wrote "piano players", but PW has a limit on number of characters for a title. So, congratulations, you've arrived. (If it were only that simple ;-)
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I tune pianos, but I'm also a "piano player"...so I took the test. 100%. Fun...thanks!
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