BRAVO! BRAVO! Avery At 06:44 PM 12/11/03 +0000, you wrote: >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 = 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)
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