warning! long. Multiple pianos and pitchraising

[John R Fortiner]

OK Dr. Coleman:	
	That situation sounds like a "kamikazi" tuning job ( the word "tuning"
should be taken very lightly here) that I will have to do in about a
month.  The school district will bring about 40 pianos to one high school
starting at about 4:00pm.  I will have between then and the next morning
to "tune" them.  I have an VTD ( thank goodness as it doesn't fatigue
like my brain) and have done this before.  The only way I can see to do
it is to allot X number of minutes per piano and hope for the best.  (
That "X" is about 25 minutes per piano)  Anyway, being as you have been
faced with this kind of situation I thought I would write and see what
you would do - other than making sure that as many of the pianos as
possible had been as well tuned as possible prior to their being moved. 
Oh, and before you ask, the school district only wants one tuner doing
the work.  It is a real shame as the pianos are to be used for District
Music Festival where kids are going in for competition.  I do a quick
tuning over the center of each instrument and then quickly check the
unisons in the top 1 1/2 octave as well as the notes below C-3.  If you
or anyone else reading this have/has any suggestions ( other than a test
for sanity ) I would appreciate hearing from you.

John R. Fortiner
Billings, MT.
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