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...Tuner Baker has been tuning pianos for 40 years-Alaskan pianos for eight. In such inaccessible outposts as Moose Pass, he charges as high as $25 a job. Many of the pianos he tunes are elegant relics of the Gold Rush. At Petersburg he recently ministered to a massive old model that had made music in '98 for Klondike Kate and Diamond Tooth...
Because piano tuning is a craft requiring great patience, tuners are apt to be dignified men who take great pride in their workmanship. Most of them also pride themselves on a calm, philosophical attitude toward life. A tuner must be able to move smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with...
...pitch, but not identical, involves a mathematical theory of Einsteinian complexity.* Practically, the problem is to put the piano systematically and artistically out of tune, by equalizing the tonal distances between the black & white keys. In getting each note of the piano just enough out of tune, the piano tuner cannot trust to any such simple measuring device as his own sense of pitch. Once he has tuned up middle C with the aid of a tuning fork, he hammers away at fourths and fifths. He listens not to pitch but to the frequency of minute oscillations known as "beats...
...players wilted last night at the sight of a pretty Radcliffe sophomore. After nine mintes of questioning in a Crimson Network forum, gridders Don Forte, Russ Stannard, Cleo O'Donnell and Stan Durwood were unexpectedly confronted with Miss Peggy Edgerton-Bird, Radcliffe '45, who tried to pry into their tuner feelings while on the football field...
...Yankee Network's 50,000 watt FM station in Boston, W43B, will broadcast the concert from Sanders Theatre, and the Crimson Network will carry the program, picked up on a special FM "tuner" to the University audience. During the concert intermission, the Network will leave the FM hookup to broadcast a resume of the finals in the University boxing championships directly from the Indoor Building...