etd tunings

[Farrell]

FWIW, I tuned a Baldwin Acrosonic today for a new client. First time I have seen the piano. It's one of those 40" or so spinets. She says she knows for a fact that it had been at least 12 years since the last tuning - because the last time was when she was in CA. Sounded pretty convicing that she was sure of the timing. When I talked to her on the phone, I told her that she could expect to also pay for a pitch raise.

Darned if that thing wasn't just about right on the button on each note. 95% of the notes were easily within 2 cents of target (Verituner). There were only a half-dozen or so that were perhaps 4 cents off. Only the bottom octave was a bit flat - up to 10 or 15 cents.

Amazing.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie W Bartlett" <lesbart1@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: etd tunings


> > I'm curious how the discussion led up to your friends "boast".  Were 
> > the two of you, perhaps, comparing the pitch raise accuracy of his 
> > RCT and your TuneLab?  I've pitch raised with both, and find that 
> > RCT gets me closer, more often.  In other words, after a single pass 
> > 100 cent pitch raise with RCT, I have less to do on the next pass 
> > than with TuneLab.  Your thoughts?
> > 
> 
> The family is one whose standards in all things musical is incredibly
> high, and the dad/technician is one whose technical skills I envy.  Yet,
> all I've heard bantered about on the list suggests that "things" continue
> to stretch and shift for "awhile" afterwards, and I can't imagine such a
> major change staying solid.  He may be able to do it. His clients are
> generally playing the better pianos, as he sends a number of the "lesser"
> ones to me.  I've not heard one of those major pitch raises which he's
> tuned, so can't say anything except his expressed opinion.  I'm one who
> questions, not one who thinks he knows..........  though I did have my
> first major outdoor tuning venture last weekend for John Tesh. The piano
> sat outside in the pavillion for eight hours before the concert, and was,
> for me, at least, a difficult challenge, an opportunity dropped in my
> lap.  I asked him "if" it was acceptable, and he was quite
> gracious.............
> 
> As to the TL/Cybertuner thing, the PRO version has a modified way to do
> pitch raises, the percent of overpull manually being set in different
> sections of the piano. I also "cheat the program" a bit, depending on the
> distance out of tune, and I seem to have pretty good luck. I'm a
> committed TL user, for the same reasons I'm a committed Guild person. 
> Both have given me what I know. Both have been effective in raising my
> hopes and my standards.  Neither forces me into "politics".  TL leaves
> enough stuff for the tuner to mess with that it's still "his" tuning, in
> the end. Since the tuner, not the program, is either given credit or
> criticism for the final result-  I like what TL offers. I've never used
> Cybertuner, and only used an SAT a couple times, but I like TL with its
> graph plus moving blocks.
> les
> 
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