Verituner

[Daniel Schreffler]

Andrew,
I have never used ear pluges . Would you let me know the kind . Do you
remove them on the final check?
DanRPT
Northern Arizona University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew & Rebeca Anderson" <anrebe@zianet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Verituner


> Donning flame suit now: ;-)
> If you use an ETD to set the bearings (like I do) aren't you putting your
> tooner ear at risk too?  I do use the ETD to track what is going on as I
> spread out from the middle, but since I am using a stone-age ETD I trust
my
> ear and correct the ETD settings constantly.  Where I use it most is
> extreme treble where I and a lot of aural tuners have trouble hearing the
> really short beats.
>
> If your ETD doesn't deal with stretch as needed by the piano, you will
> encounter some really funny things happening in little pianos.  In a
spinet
> you can expect to come close to stretching the note on either side of
> A4.  That is why a set of tuning forks for the octave temperament (they
> sell them at Schaff) does not work for all pianos.  Of-course checking the
> Major Thirds (I do them as triads) will catch this problem, but then you
> are tuning twice.  When you are tuning for institutions where the bell
> rings all too soon and the classroom is suddenly flooded with curious
> students, a good ETD is very helpful.
>
> I prepped a piano for a Liszt recital last week and it was a pitch-raise
> with a nasty killer octave.  Next time I'll come prepared to level strings
> and drift the wires around pins on the bridge.  Anyhow, I did the pitch
> raise with ear-plugs in and then spent a lot of time (I had the whole
place
> to myself and no time constraints) tuning aurally with the tuner over
there
> automatically following me around (an amusing distraction).  For me,
tuning
> aurally is a great pleasure not always afforded by the commercial
> circumstances I find myself in.  A week later, lots of practise, and ten
> degrees warmer I volunteered to fix four unisons the day of the
> concert.  That wasn't a call-back, when I asked the artist if it might
need
> a little touch-up by now he wasn't certain but mentioned he was
> uncomfortable with something in D flat major in the bass.  Unless you are
> tuning for a tuner you aren't likely to get a callback.  I've tuned after
> some atrocious tunings (not here in Las Cruces fellow chapter members ;-)
> ).  The customer only noticed that the previous tuning was bad by how
> wonderful my tuning was by comparison.
>
> Ducking into my foxhole now, ;-)
> Andrew
> Las Cruces, NM
>
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