This is not a new story but food for though. A client of mine, Christian, is a writer for a Music Technology company in the UK. He turned me on to several great links having just returned from the NAMM Conference in LA.
So there is a dream out there among techies of building a piano that tunes itself. Good luck. I think this might be a case of what perfection may or may not be. Technology in and of its self is not bad and much creativity and innovation can come from it so I applaud the effort even though it would seem that the result is a non starter for those piano owners who do not want to pay for their next piano tuning.
Interesting suggestion. Being a tuner myself, I can say there is almost no way that any servo is going to generate 50-100lbs of torque, nor that you will have 230 of them, nor that they could last more than two years. I think getting the machine to find the right pitch is the least of your problems.
http://losangelespianotuning.com
I’m a pianotuner and musician from Holland.
I have a question and maybe someone can answer my question.
A piano that tunes itself was to go on sale at the end of 2003. The inventor of the self-tuning piano is Don Gilmore.
Does anybody know if there is any news about the self-tuning piano from Don Gilmore? The self-tuning piano is still not on the market in Europe and in the United States.
Maybe some can tell me the reason why the self-tuning piano still is not for sale?
Does someone know when the self-tuning piano is for sale and put on the market?
Maybe someone can tell me some more news abouth the self-tuning piano? I’m very interested.
Kind Regards,
P.Roovers
Holland (Europe)
P Roovers – I am looking for the same question. did you get any answer?
No, I didn’t get any answer. Maybe it’s impossible. I don’t know.
Kind Regards,
P.Roovers