My 10-minute tuning in practice!

[Greg Newell]

Karen,
	I do. I think that the method isn't half as important as the speed with
which it's performed. Sometimes I'm not even listening but just raising
tension. It works really well for those pianos that are really far down.
For those that aren't I use the overpull of the ETD. Actually I use the
overpull on the real tuning after the pitch raise too. In fifteen years
I can count on one hand the times I've needed more than 2 times thru to
give the customer a "playable instrument" . Flame suit ready but
remember, this is not perfect but just "what they can afford" . 
				Greg Newell

Kgj38@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> Now I am curious to know how many of you tune every string during a pitch
> raise, as opposed to just the middle string.   I really want to know!
> 
> Karen Johnson
> Rochester, MN
> 
> In a message dated 3/11/99 1:51:56 PM Central Standard Time,
> tito@PhilBondi.com writes:
> 
> << The one in the customer's home was 11.3c flat..that one was just a quickie
>  doing JUST the middle string..I'm sure someone on this list will tell me to
> do
>  all 3, but what I have found is if I leave the middle string beating pretty
>  good against the lower octave, then when I go to do the fine tune, it falls
>  into place instead of the unisons 'dragging down' the pitch..this is the 2nd
>  time I have tried this with good results..yes, I had a few flat ones in the
>  6th octave and had to re-tune 3, but all in all, this quickie PR seems to
> work
>  for me when the piano is not that bad to begin with.
> 
>  PRook!
>   >>