Things will never be quite the same again.
It’s my ears.
I suppose this is pretty arcane to anyone who never sat down and tried to tune a piano but I am hearing things I never heard before. As you can imagine you have to listen really intently to what’s going on with the piano while tuning it, and most people can understand that if you hear beats or waves when two strings are sounding they are not in tune, but when you really listen there is an awful lot going on with those sound waves. For anyone who has studied music a but you will know about harmonics or overtones - lots of those going on with 3 piano strings sounding. Then after we have all been going out of our minds tuning our 20th piano in a week Don Stephenson tells us about ‘false beats’ which sound when a flaw in a piano string makes it sound out of tune when it’s not. Thanks for waiting until week 2 to share that tidbit Don.
Done says he is slowly turning us into human frequency analyzers and I am completely buying into it because I’m hearing the damn beats everywhere now. At the grocery store I was practically coming out of my skin from the noise this one freezer was making. The furnace here at the town house. My car. The microwave oven at school. The chain on my bike. Guitars on half the songs on the radio. Everything’s out of tune!
I can’t imagine listening to music will ever be the same again. Not worse, just different.
