Chris's machine is quite impressive, and the Goldberg recording sounds better than good. Additionally he certainly has the right to share his dissatisfaction with the up-to-now-ubiquitous platforms for social communication as well as the useful information regarding alternatives, however, as becomes apparent, the thread moves off topic and, in fact, away from pianos. If continued pursuit of this 'sub-thread' is desired, it should at very least be re-titled. Ideally, it would be redirected to the
appropriate 'community' but there doesn't seem to be one. I understand the intense desire to bear witness for one's views in these times, but that usually serves to usher in some significant disruptive chaos on these lists.
I'm not trying to censor the discussion but, rather, direct it to an appropriate space or otherwise identify it. The current tools at our disposal would seem to be either a subject line marked as OT (Off Topic) or the seldom (if ever) used "Mark As Inappropriate". Humph? I wonder what would happen if I pressed
that button. :)
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David Skolnik [RPT]
Hastings-on-Hudson NY
914-231-7565
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-10-2018 12:57
From: James Kelly
Subject: My piano key pounding machine
now if you can find a way to stop annoying adds from popping up even ones with voice tracks you need to listen to for the first few seconds I am interested. Way too much tracking and propaganda to shape your choices and accept theirs. If you have Alexia dump it she listens 24 x7
just saw today how mlb is going to use fingerprints and facial recognition to improve the "user experience" . its the boiled frog syndrome. sooner or later the frog gets boiled as the heat is repeatedly turned up. if you have a smart phone someone is tracking you even if you turned the features off. censorship is a dangerous thing as pointed out -who gets to decide. someone writes the code to flag words "banned" by the censor(s) . social media is out of control...
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James Kelly
Pawleys Island SC
843-325-4357
Original Message:
Sent: 09-10-2018 08:10
From: Don Dalton
Subject: My piano key pounding machine
Thank you for standing against censorship! This is a slippery slope: exactly who gets to decide what's "legitimate" information? How can we be so certain that future censors will be as supposedly enlightened as we are? Will the public eventually become immune to censorship and see it as routine?
It is truly Orwellian to see censorship celebrated. If any of us disagrees with anything said or written, then we can use our critical thinking skills to disarm it. If we fear that we don't have adequate critical thinking skills to do this, then that would be the real problem.
Signed, a former philosophy major.
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Don Dalton
Chester VT
Original Message:
Sent: 09-09-2018 12:00
From: Chris Chernobieff
Subject: My piano key pounding machine
***Key Pounder Update****
This thing is proving itself to be ever reliable. I'm posting this update for two reasons. First, after using this thing on a couple pianos, it looks like an hour is fine to assure all strikes are striking in phase. Of course, this is performed after other mating operations such as string leveling and some hammer work.
Second, i'm ditching youtube, google, and facebook due to their censorship practices. I also got a new email address because gmail is not private at all. After much searching i chose protonmail.com. It is based out of Switzerland and is even immune from the US Courts. Now that's private! As an alternative to youtube i chose Real.Video.com.
Piano Key Pounder on the Grinnell Grand Piano
Peace all.
Chris
#caveman
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I don't always play the piano, but when i do, I prefer my own.
chernobieffpiano.com
chrisppff@gmail.com
865-986-7720
Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2018 16:26
From: Chris Chernobieff
Subject: My piano key pounding machine
Mr. Fariss,
Thanks for sharing. Clearly a lot less strikes per minute.
-chris
Original Message------
You asked "I have no idea how long the factories do it." When I interned at Steingraber in Germany, they put their machine on at the end of the day and let it play overnight. Here is a short video of the pounder in action.
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Jim Fariss, RPT
Black Forest Piano
Black Forest, Colorado
(719) 425-8845
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