[pianotech] Pitch raise criteria

[Terry Farrell]

Don't sweat it too much Rob. Some of us seem to never really get into  
the "high speed" category. Now maybe there's something wrong with me  
(well, we KNOW that!) but I've been tuning pianos for more than ten  
years now and on a regular basis it take me two hours to do a full  
pitch raise and tuning on a piano that has been neglected from some  
years. If the piano is up to pitch, it usually takes me 75 minutes to  
tune it - sometimes, if the piano is very cooperative, I can do it in  
an hour.

These guys that pitch raise, tune and repair a piano in one hour (and  
do good work), have skills and techniques beyond what I have. I wish I  
could work that fast. I've gone to the speed classes and the  
techniques I've tried just haven't worked for me.

Terry Farrell

On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:24 PM, John Formsma wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com>  
> wrote:
> Jer,
>
> I still don't see how you can do all that in an hour! :-) I'm still  
> taking about 2 hours, sometimes 10-15 minutes longer on the more  
> difficult pianos.  I guess my time will come down with more  
> experience.

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