This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Kevin wrote: I've been fully immersed in this work for about ten years. The learning = curve shows no sign of flattening out yet, I just keep getting new = things to look at. Like key weighting, my next area of inquiry. Aw geezze! I figured ten years would be the magic number. I'd have it = all figured out be then! What a way to burst a guy's bubble. Actually, = though that is so very encouraging, because the fun is in learning. I = think that is why I can quote Willis Snyder: "When I go to sleep at = night, I still dream of pianos." Way cool to be that excited about = something you love - and I think the love grows best when new things are = constantly learned. It's like a marriage: If you are not growing, your = marriage is dying. Terry Farrell =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Kevin E. Ramsey=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:15 PM Subject: Re: stability of pitch raises Terry wrote: =20 "Now this is where my original question came from. What I am = trying to do here is understand how slow I may be. I assume here that you have been = at this profession for a goodly number of years. I read so many posts = from techs that I am doing something wrong if I spent more than 20 minutes = on a pitch raise. Some claim to do 6 to 8 minute pitch raises. OK, 61 cents = is a large one pass pitch raise (I realize in this particular case you did = two more octaves), so lets give this pitch raise 15 to 20 minutes. Throw = in another 5 or 10 for the extra two octaves. We are still below a half = hour. Now the tuning claims - never more than an hour - 40 minutes - 30 = minutes. So how about 45 minutes for tuning? Then we have 45 + 25 =3D 70 = minutes. One hour and ten minutes. What you did usually takes me right about 2 = hours, and I would not have done any voicing. I'm not trying to pick on you Kevin - I don't know that you have ever claimed to be one of these 20 minute tuners - but is anyone willing to = give an opinion - Are these claims of 8 minute pitch raises and 30 minute = tunings just testosterone running wild? Or are many/most tuners that quick = after 10 years in the field? (Again, I am trying to flush out the truth, not = pick on anyone!)" No, I'm not one of those lightning fast pitch raisers. I like to = get the pitch as close as possible the first time. Therefore, I don't as = a rule just start yanking things up as quickly as possible, and I do set = the strings while I pitch raise, so that, once again, I know it's going = to stay pretty much there. =20 I've been fully immersed in this work for about ten years. The = learning curve shows no sign of flattening out yet, I just keep getting = new things to look at. Like key weighting, my next area of inquiry. =20 I understand your previous posting concerning first pass, just = raising to pitch technique. I've done the same thing on really old, = really flat pianos in order to avoid popping strings. A little more = work, but much kinder on the piano. I've also heard too many stories = about busted plates, and I (Knock on Wood) have never experienced one. I remember asking Bill Spurlock one time about doing pitch raises = unisons as you go, if that wouldn't stress the piano too much by having = one side of it up to pitch and the other completely flat. He said that = he had done plenty of them as much as 80 cents flat that way and never = had a problem. That was good enough for me. But on an older piano, which = may not be structurally as sound, sometimes I try to spread the tension = out a little first. Just to be safe. Hope this helps. Others will do it differently, of course. Kevin Ramsey ramsey@extremezone.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8d/6d/31/8c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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