![]() I find it very empowering, because the word “problem” feels thorny and off-putting and intractable. I have puzzles.” He frames life is as a series of puzzles. There’s a quote I love from Quincy Jones, the music producer, who says: “I don’t have problems. But I think it’s very helpful to frame them as puzzles. I think we’ve got huge problems, and luckily we have this instinct to want to solve them. Michael Kovnat: I think you quote someone as saying evolution wants us to solve things.Ī.J.: Yes, of course, because that’s how we got food. Jacobs: We are wired to want to solve problems. ![]() And follow host Rufus Griscom on LinkedIn for behind-the-scenes looks into the show.Ī.J. Listen to A.J.’s appearance on the Next Big Idea podcast below, or read a few key highlights. is back with a new immersive memoir, The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life. To write The Year of Living Biblically, he followed every commandment in the Old Testament, including the edicts stone adulterers and avoid shaving the corners of your beard. I’ve tried to understand the world by immersing myself in extraordinary circumstances.”įor The Know-It-All, he read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover. “I’ve engaged in a series of experiments on my mind and body,” he says, “some of which have been fruitful, some humiliating failures. Jacobs has attempted to live his life as a human guinea pig. A tiny stub begins to grow and more and more as you walk with this magic crutch, this tiny stub gets longer and longer until one day you have a fully grown leg and you can triumphantly throw away your magic crutch (or sell it or give it away.For the last 25 years, writer A.J. Now imagine being born with only one leg and having to walk with a crutch, but instead of a conventional crutch, you have a magic crutch.Īs you walk, using this magic crutch, a strange thing starts to happen. Except that as you use the crutch, your leg starts to atrophy and shrink until eventually, you have no leg at all. Imagine having a broken leg and using a crutch to walk. They force you to use your eyes to tune pianos and by doing that, your ear gets lazy. This is the first ever ETD that will train you how to NOT NEED IT ANYMORE!Ĭonventional ETDs train you how to never need your ear. Not only will you have the ear for piano tuning, but you have it right now! No more being frustrated and reluctantly pulling out the ETD thinking, "The ETD is good enough. No more thinking, "Is that it? Maybe? I think it is? OK, let's just go with that." No more hearing the beat for a few seconds and then it's gone. As another highly respected piano technician told me, "Beats are King!"īy tuning beat rates to highly accurate criteria we can produce extremely accurate treble notes that sing, we can produce consistent equal temperament, and we can easily tune pure unisons and know when they are not stable, all by being able to easily hear the beating of any interval.Īnd not just hear it, but hear it clearly, and consistently. But you need to be able to hear the beats. But let's face it, what piano technician wouldn't want to be able to hear and use beat rates?Īlso, ETDs have been proven not to do as good a job as a beginning technician using a powerful aural system like the Go APE System. I know highly respected piano technicians who still can't hear them but claim they don't need to their ETD (Electronic Tuning Device) does a fine job. For example when trying to tune wide P4 or narrow P5. Piano tuners listen to these beats and tune one note of the interval so that:ġ) the beats disappear, as in the case of tuning pure intervals, orĢ) the beat of the interval you are tuning relates to the beat of an already tuned interval. ![]() When you play an interval - a unison, octave, P4, P5, M3, whatever - the higher partials line up to produce beating coincident partials. Well, because I invented it and I am a concert level piano technician and when I use the Piano Tuners Ear I notice two things:ġ) The Piano Tuners Ear lets me hear better what I already hear with my own ears, andĢ) I'm hesitant to say, it helps me hear things I can't hear with my own ears. Now you can hear exactly what professional concert level piano technicians hear (and what some can't!) with the flip of a switch and a turn of the dial. Introducing the first ever Piano Tuners Ear!
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