Standard Pitch

[Scott Jackson]

Corte,
Don't worry about it. If your pitch raise is under 30 minutes, you're doing
fine!

I used to take ages, carefully tuning about 3 times to raise pitch. Then I
saw the light! (from reading this list). Now I stop thinking "tuning" and
start thinking "add tension". Actually, I try NOT to think! Don't stop!
Don't listen! Don't set pins! Just PULL!!! It doesn't worry me too much
where the pitch ends up exactly; just get some tension back in the system.
After that I can breathe, relax and take my time to actually TUNE normally.
MUCH less frustrating......

Scott Jackson
Wollongong, Australia


----- Original Message -----
From: <cswearingen@daigger.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Standard Pitch


> Hello Everyone,
>
> 20 minutes for a pitch raise?  Ok, maybe.  20 minutes for a rough tune?
> That seems to be a difficult proposition.  20 minutes for a fine tune?
> This, I just don't understand.
>
> Maybe I'm just slow but it's rare for me to complete a pitch raise under
30
> minutes.  Then, for fine tuning, checking, and nitpicking the unisons -
> it's a good 60-90 minutes for me.  So, throwing in a pitch raise, it's a
> 2-hour workload.
>
> I've only been tuning for a few years so I guess if you've been doing it
> for 20 years on a daily basis, you get to be pretty quick.
>
> Any other slow tuners out there??
>
> Corte Swearingen
> Chicago