Unless the responses can be transmitted anonymously, I wouldn't trust anyone's claim! This would also depend quite a bit on the piano also. The piano I just posted about yesterday would go back up the 1/2 step in three or four movements. I've had some cooperative pins that allowed micro-adjustments - it was easy to bump it up or down repeatedly in increments of less than one cent. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:45 PM Subject: old PTJ article > Quite an interesteing PTJ article, from 1985, about testing your tuning > hammer technique. Pick the last string in the tenor/treble section, > somewhere aroung E-F#5, on an upright piano. Lower the note by 1/2 step, or > 100c. Then, making as many SMALL, but definite pin movements as you can, > bring the note back UP to where you started. The article estimates that a > beginner will make only about 10 individual pin movements before arriving > 1/2 step back up, while the seasoned tech will make as many as THIRTY > separate pin movements. Keep in mind that the pin MUST MOVE in the block in > this test; bending or anything else does NOT count, needless to say, but, > what the hey! Try it and report back to let us know how you did. Remember, > feel the "ticks." > > Terry Peterson > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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