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I'm posting on my site tonight, realizing that I haven't posted here in a while. The reason why, is that I have been posting on other public forums. The nature of my posts on those other forums has been to share my piano tuning and repair methods with other piano technicians. I've been doing this for a few years now, and while I receive positive feedback from many, I also raise the ire of many as well, to the point of being called a "piano butcher", a charlatan, and deluding people, when all I am doing is relaying to other people the way I am doing something. The results, from my perspective as a Registered Piano Technician, and piano playing musician, are acceptable at least, and often impressive. But for some reason, my posts bring out the haters. I've known for a while now why I post on those other forums. You see, about a year ago, I took an online test to see if I was a narcissist. While the average was 19/30, I scored 5/30. I am insecure. Often, I have been posting on other technician forums because I am looking for validation of my methods. For this I am ashamed. Ashamed because I have ignored the positive and glowing feedback of my students and my customers. Ashamed because I am looking to strangers who are my competitors, to find confidence. And ashamed because I have not had the confidence in my own results. How can I expect others to have confidence in my own methods, when I don't? So, today I pledge to never go looking for validation from strangers again, many who are insecure in their own abilities. I came to the realization today, while reading some posts on aural piano tuning methods vs ETD methods, that I will never find widespread acceptance of my methods. The reason being, is that my Beat Speed Window method is too empirical. Too many aural tuners tell of tuning by feel, with no consideration for empirical feedback, like those obtained by using beat speed windows. When so many tuners are now using, and some revering, the results of machines, machines that use math to tell us what the best tuning is, math that uses approximations and error data as input, you would think that using a scientific and empirical aural method would be welcomed. This has not been my experience. For the last week I have contemplated posting a few times about my empirical beat speed window method, but after receiving little or no interest from previous posts, and fielding a bombardment of criticisms which, by their own wording, show that some tuners have too easily chosen to leap at an understanding of the method that makes it look weak or even foolish, instead of assuming that they themselves may have a misunderstanding of the method which they obviously do, I have quickly abandoned the idea. So, the challenge remains. How do I spread the word about a new aural piano tuning method that produces highly accurate and precise results, using a technique that only a few ingenious technicians have ever used, but that I have been able to package within a set of procedures that make it user friendly enough to teach to beginners? Beat Speed Windows with Double String Unisons produces - Consistent and accurate stretch that produces the most number of pure intervals, - A method of valuable and high resolution feedback that fast tracks the tuner's understanding and ability to produce clean unisons and superior stability - An accurate and precise temperament right from the first setting of a temperament note, producing pitches that are the final pitches needed for each note. - A method that catches drifted notes before they are needed as references to tune other notes. - A method that asks the tuner to tune specific beat speeds within windows, instead of guessing what they should be. - A way to perform one pass pitch raises that require the tuner to keep creating accurate pitches instead of guessing at over pulling, - A way to speed up tunings incredibly, without having quality suffer. There is no way I can explain all these things in one post. In fact, even after people take my basic tuning course, which now is taught using this new method exclusively, there are elements and understanding that are missed. So, the question remains; how do I spread knowledge about an aural piano tuning method that I know is superior to current methods, can produce precise results, as precise or better than any modern ETD, and I know this because no tuner, programmer or not, is aware, or if they are aware, is convinced of the superior criteria I place on beatless octaves and pure interval stretch. The only answer I can come up with, based on my recent years of developing this method, enjoying its beautiful results, and sharing with other technicians is...slowly. Please comment and keep in touch.