Ron, You are "the man." I'm admittedly too picky and obsessive with aural tuning. Always feel like needing to do extra checks, which adds more time. Regular aural tunings with no severe pitch corrections were taking anywhere from 55-70 minutes. If I worked fast, with just basic checks, I could do it in 45 minutes, but that was before the VT when I was doing exclusively aural work. It's amazing how using the machine has slowed me down with aural tunings (did one the other day). Gotta put the machine away for a while. Using the VT I can do a tuning in 45-50 minutes. Like I said, it was a business decision rather than a purist's decision. I originally got the VT when my wife was sick with her cancer because I wanted to do fast but good tunings to get back home to care for her. She passed away 12/2004, and I've been a single working dad caring for two boys (4 and 2). Therefore, time is limited, and it's been easier just to let the VT do all my thinking. But, I'm getting to the point now where I will be able to focus more on improving my skills, and I want to get back to doing more aural work. John Formsma -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:51 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: VT pitch raising tip--was > Yeah, yeah, I know. I've done plenty of aural tuning, and I like my aural > work just fine. But, the truth is that I just don't tune as fast aurally as > I can with the VT and get the same results. It has come down to time, and > I've made a business decision to use the VT. It does a great job with the > one-pass overpull tunings, which I do a lot of. Beats the heck out of having > to do the aural pitch correction first, then a tuning -- which is what I > used to do before. Saves the customer money, easier on me, great results. > > Now, from a purist's perspective, yup, I'll still argue for aural tuning. > :-) > > John Formsma I do the one pass aural overpull tuning pretty quickly. I did ten in the last two days (earlier P22 post) in a community college, anywhere from 30 to 50 minutes each - depending on how wild the treble was. That didn't leave much time for scratching though, until I got home. I probably need to make some adjustments... _______________________________________________ Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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