speedy gonzales

[antares]

> From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano@gate.net>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:41:50 -0400
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: re : speedy gonzales
> 
> List,
> I remember years back going to the Little Red School House getting my first
> dose of speed and accuracy.  The discussion was on how long  should it take to
> regulate a set of dampers. Everyone gave their time estimates, some were as
> high as 4 hrs. .
> Then in walks in one of the factory damper regulators who does nothing else
> but concert Yamaha damper regulation. 18 minutes top to bottom.  Done. He was
> turbo charged like nothing else I have ever witnessed.
> The point in the discussion was we can either choose to pokey at a comfortable
> rate and do so-so work or we can go like a bat out of hell and have to pay
> extreme attention, something akin to a race car driver driving at 55 mph. vs.
> 220 mph.  Yamaha contends that working at an extreme fast rate yields not
> only better production but with practice, better accuracy. You have to pay
> more attention and not let anything clog your thinking in order to do this
> correctly. However going at a snail's pace allows the mind to drift think
> about other things which are not pertinent to the issues at hand.
> I have never forgotten that bit of advise and I find that I have applied that
> to many of the repetitive tasks.

And there you have it......
The repetitive tasks are so boring and a pain in the back that the only
solution is to do them as fast as possible.
btw, during the concert grand course (at Yamaha) I received lessons from the
concert grand damper man (maybe it was the same person?). As an instructor
he was a real pain and gave me hell, but otherwise a fabulous specialist in
his field. I suppose there are not many people in the world like these
damper gladiators.
After that I returned one more time to the concert grand department and
there I saw the very same damper person (I think his name was Ono-san).
He recognized me, and said smiling : "you want another lesson"? (;>))

> Tuning is high on the list for this idea.  10-15 mins. is just about all the
> time one really needs to make a pitch and tension adjustment. Like many have
> said on this list, it's really not a tuning as it is an adjustment. The goal
> is get the pitch into the ballpark without wasting valuable time and effort.
> Tom Servinsky,RPT

My idea.....

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