"On Pitch" with Rick Baldassin - Seattle P.T.G. Convention

If you've been in the business for a while you know Rick Baldassin. From Baldwin to Renner, Rick has been around. Today I sat in on his lecture covering topics from his classic piano tuning book "On Pitch".

Rick talked about the theory of intervals, their coincidental partials, and their relevance to the tuning technician. It's great to hear someone like Rick break it down in such an understandable and immediately usable way.  I was hit by a curve ball though when Rick explained how intervals like major thirds, fourths, and fifths all go inside out at different ranges of the piano. It was very enlightening.

If you've been in the business for a while you know Rick Baldassin. From Baldwin to Renner, Rick has been around. Today I sat in on his lecture covering topics from his classic piano tuning book "On Pitch".Rick talked about the theory of intervals, their coincidental partials, and their relevance to the tuning technician. It's great to hear someone like Rick break it down in such an understandable and immediately usable way.  I was hit by a curve ball though when Rick explained how intervals like major thirds, fourths, and fifths all go inside out at different ranges of the piano. It was very enlightening.

By far the coolest thing Rick had for this lecture was a wireless listening setup where each attendee was given a headset and as Rick played the intervals you could hear the coincidental partials sounding in your earphones. To be clear, these were not synthesized sounds. He had a microphone on the piano and the output ran through an Accutuner which filtered all but the partial he selected. Very cool.

Short of catching one of Rick's great lectures, you can grab his book "On Pitch".