This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello all There's no doubt it takes some of us longer than others to tune a piano. = The time it takes is immaterial so long as the job is true and you feel = personally happy with it. My last rush job was Thursday night (last) = when I was obliged to tune - or check the tunings of - 13 pianos, mostly = Grands (Yamahas, Steinways and the like) ditto the few uprights - in 4 = 1/2 hours. This is not bravado, this is just the way I have to work = sometimes. Another time like that is in my schools. One of them has 25 = pianos - a motley collection which includes a Yamaha CF3 concert, a = couple of model "A"s and some Yamaha U3s + a Harpsichord. I have to = reckon on spending average 1/2 hour on each. I have six schools and the = time in them is mostly taken up getting from one piano (who's got the = key?) to another. For my private tunings I operate on the basis of one = hour - that is to say 50minutes or so allowing me time to get to the = next one. I work best under pressure and timing them the way I do gives = me just that amount of stimulus. Doesn't always work, but mostly there's = no trouble I can't deal with in that time. Knotting broken strings, = regluing key tops, easing stiff centres, adjusting the pedals - you name = it. BUT if the piano has to be brought up to A =3D 440 (I refuse to say = "Standard Pitch") from up to a semi-tone flat then I usually allow 1 3/4 = hours and try to get it done, including fine tuning, in 1 1/2 hours. = There's no such thing as "Standard Pitch" In Vienna the ruling pitch is = 445 in UK it's 440 and in early music it can be 430, 415 or even 397Hz. = OK? Regards to you all Michael G (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ac/3b/a0/36/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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