Word: tuners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets (except Zenith's) are in danger of becoming obsolete. Zenith's reasoning: any day now, the Federal Communications Commission may license Ultra High Frequencies* for TV transmission. McDonald claimed that Zenith is the only television receiver equipped with "a specially designed, built-in turret tuner" with "provision" for picking...
Siragusa also blasted the Zenith claim as "very poor advertising, about the poorest taste I ever saw . . . Nobody knows how or where or when the proposed new bands will fall." Admiral's Adman Seymour Mintz cried indignantly: "The public doesn't even know what a turret tuner is. All you have to do is put in some new condenser strips for higher frequencies. Just take out the old and put in the new. Why throw a scare into people before you need...
...radio candids, Allen Funt sometimes merely plants his mike and lets nature take its course. (A charming sample: two little girls gabbling in their cribs before falling asleep.) More often he plants himself, along with the hidden mike, and gives nature a nudge-heckling an incredibly sweet-tempered piano tuner; negotiating with a girl behind a perfume counter, his pockets full of live limburger...
...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...
...Masters. Scientific exactitude in tuning is expected of any hack, but there is a further area where taste, artistry and individuality are paramount. No two master tuners will tune a piano exactly alike, nor will any master tune a piano the same way for different occasions. A piano that is perfectly tuned and "regulated" (by fluffing up the felt hammers to soften tone) for a broadcasting studio will sound all wrong in Carnegie Hall. A piano that is to accompany a violin is adjusted differently from one that is to accompany a cello. A tuner with a sensitive personal touch...