{"id":1728,"date":"2015-07-17T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T03:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2018-03-01T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:08:02","slug":"two-views-of-a-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1728","title":{"rendered":"Two Views of a Tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing on the concert-grand in the empty recital hall one afternoon, I became more and more distracted by <!--more-->the state of its tuning. Finally I tried some chromatic intervals, and found that, in a sequence of major thirds\u2014E-G#, F-A, F#-A#, G-B, Ab-C\u2014no two were the same size.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to practicing, I was deeply into it when one of the French doors opened behind me, and a young man poked his head in. \u201cExcuse me,\u201d he said. \u201cI finished tuning an hour ago and just wanted to see how it\u2019s holding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said nothing, but wordlessly played the same sequence of intervals while watching his face. A satisfied look spread across it as he said, \u201cPerfect! Just wanted to check. Thanks.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Exiting, he closed the door quietly.<span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing on the concert-grand in the empty recital hall one afternoon, I became more and more distracted by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}