Hi Norman!
Thanks for subscribing! (If I get 100 subscribers I can have a unique address & get to be a "real person". Haha!)
I do indeed plan to cover all the things you mention, except I hadn't thought to specifically cover the Railsback curve, so I appreciate that. Good idea! The only thing I can tell you right now is I'm taking "baby steps" so won't be covering inharmonicity until I've covered tempering, which I won't do until I've gone over a couple more things with the harmonic series. It's not far off! Other temperaments will come eventually after inharmonicity, but there will be much in between. I THINK I am developing a good visual aid for inharmonicity so am excited about that.
I haven't looked at your link yet but will do that soon.
Thank you everyone for the encouragement and support!
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Maggie Jusiel, RPT
Athens, WV
(304)952-8615
mags@timandmaggie.net------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: 01-08-2021 16:55
From: Norman Brickman
Subject: Music Theory for Piano Technicians
Maggie, Very good work. Thank you. I subscribed. I brought up several of your lessons, and I encourage you to continue to expand them. For example, I enjoyed your lesson on circle of fifths (MTPT #9.5), and your approach to activating sympathetic partials (in #20) is very interesting and different from how I usually demonstrate it. I understand you are still expanding your set of lessons, and I might have some suggestions to offer that would also assist those piano technicians interested in learning aural piano tuning. For example, you might consider a lesson on inharmonicity (and the Railsback curve), or going further into the use of intervals and their beats and relationships within equal temperament, or perhaps building on your current foundations to discuss historic temperaments like meantone and well temperaments. (See my recent post here on the aural tuning topic, or my charts at
https://potomacpiano.com/tuning-articles, and we can email to discuss further.) Regards, Norman
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Norman Brickman
Potomac Piano Service
Potomac, Maryland
potomacpiano@verizon.net
https://potomacpiano.com
(301) 983.9321
Original Message:
Sent: 01-07-2021 21:56
From: Margaret Jusiel
Subject: Music Theory for Piano Technicians
Hello, all!
I'd like to introduce a project I've started: "Music Theory for Piano Technicians". It's still in the early stages & I've been trying to add at least one video per week. These are "just me", so will be casual with a "learn as I go" approach.
I'm trying to present music theory in a way that will be more useful to piano technicians, particularly those who have not had classical, collegiate theory. It is more than the "minimum" you need to know, although that can be found within these videos. This starts with beginning music theory using a keyboard as a visual instead of music notation. It will deviate from standard music theory into piano tuning specific theory, and any theory skipped can be presented later on as "extras". My goal in the long term is to provide enough information that piano technicians will be able to understand writings on the subject that use music theory language, and to have a deeper understanding of what they are doing both musically and acoustically. Although these are mostly consecutive, anyone can "bop around" as desired or stop anywhere they like. If there is a handout to go with a video, it is linked in the "description". If you have any questions or suggestions, particularly topics you'd like to see covered, please don't hesitate to ask them here or through private message. My first regret is that I didn't think to use theory vocabulary other than "American". I'm going to try to remedy that in comments and future videos. Soon to be upcoming videos will be covering larger intervals and more about coincident partials.
I hope anyone who cares to explore these finds something that will be useful in their work and continued education in this field. If you like them, please subscribe.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6RYO1N8Y1hHMFSz5ybKU4zO4BflLSxKv
Thank You!
Maggie
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Maggie Jusiel, RPT
Athens, WV
(304)952-8615
mags@timandmaggie.net
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