Hey buster! Were you a beginner in this profession at some point or were you born with a tuning wrench in one hand and a tuning fork in the other? I'll bet your mother wasn't any too pleased when came breast feeding time! :-( Got just a little quicker and a little smarter today. :-) You'll get a progress report in 2003. I will likely be doing things entirely different then. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Re: stability of pitch raises (Ron's question) > >Not certain if this is what you're looking to read, but here goes. > > Hi Keith, > It wasn't exactly, but turns out that it is anyway. This speaks nicely to > the point I was trying to make. For a single pass tuner, at some general > point of pitch deviation a preliminary pass will be necessary to produce an > acceptable tuning. This costs more time because the tuner must go over the > piano twice. This applies to both ETD and aural. For the habitual two pass > tuner using an ETD, there shouldn't be a significant difference in time > spent between a first pass on an "at pitch" piano, and one that's 15 cents > off, so there doesn't seem to be much justification for pitch adjustment > charges from two pass ETD users unless, Like John M and Ron K said, it's > WAY off and requires a third pass. Then there's Terry, who just might be > working too hard. I'll have to check back with him in a couple of years > when his schedule fills up and get an update. > > > Ron N
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