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- Contents 1
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- STRICTLY TUNING
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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- MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR:
- Personal message (two pages)
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- WELCOME TO "STRICTLY TUNING"
- Author biography -Reasons to learn tuning (two
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- Chapter One:
- Musical Knowledge Required for Piano Tuners
- (twelve pages)
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- a. Noise and Music
- b. The Vibrating Piano String
- c. Producing Beats
- d. The Piano Keyboard
- e. Intervals
- f. A "Little" Math
- g. Equal Temperament
- h. Series of Partials
- i. Ratios
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- Chapter Two:
- Tuning Technique (seven pages)
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- a. Tools needed
- b. Introduction to the Piano Parts
- c. Muting of Strings
- d. Tuning Hammer Technique
- e. How to Listen for Beats
- f. How to Set The Pin
- g. How to Use the Tuning Fork
- h. How to tune Unisons and Octaves
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- Contents 2
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- Chapter Three:
- Setting the Temperament Octave (nine pages)
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- a. How to mute off the temperament octave
- b. How to set the pitches
- c. ALL tests needed to check your work
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- Chapter Four:
- Tuning the Remaining "75" (six pages)
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- a. How to mute off the entire piano
- b. Tuning tests within the octave being tuned
- c. Major third/Tenth test
- d. Double Octave test
- e. Octave/Tenth test
- f. Octave/Minor seventh test
- g. Tips on Treble Tuning
- h. Definition of "False Beats"
- i. Why bass strings sometimes "buzz" and how to
- stop it
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- Chapter Five:
- Pitch Raising and Lowering (nine pages)
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- a. Precautions to Take
- b. Why pianos go out of tune
- c. Humidity control
- d. Electronic tuning
- e. How to determine pitch by ear
- f. "Technical" info on determining pitches
- g. Raising pitch less than 1/4 step
- h. Raising pitch more than 1/4 step
- i. Pitch lowering
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- Chapter Six:
- Replacing a String: (six pages)
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- a. Tools necessary
- b. Treble string replacement
- c. Bass string replacement
- d. Loose tuning pins
- e. Cautions to take
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- Appendix A:
- Table of Equivalent Beat Rates (one page)
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- Appendix B:
- Theoretical Fundamental Pitches of All 88 notes
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- Frequencies of the First Eight Partials of Each
- Note in the Temperament Octave (two pages)
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- Appendix C:
- Basic Musical Notation (two pages)
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- Bonus Book:
- How to Accomplish Anything You Want In Life:
- (thirteen pages)
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- Contents 3
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- Student Information:
- More information on the course (five pages)
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- Registration Form:
- Obvious (two pages)
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- Tape Locator:
- This locator will help you match up the audio
- tapes with the written text. (two pages)
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- Other offers:
- Please read this - you won't be sorry (8 pages)
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- Final Note: That's it - my final note...
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