Les I should have elaborated more. I use a Cybertuner and the "smart tune" feature calculates the over pull for every note from the inharmonicity readings taken before starting. For a piano up to 25 cents flat one pass and tidy up a couple of unisons is the norm. My tuning time is normally around 50-60 minutes. If doing a concert tuning even a raise or drop of 3 cents benefits from the over pull calculations. The ETD knockers should spent a bit of time and see how good this program is rather than saying aural is the only way. Robin Stevens From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Bartlett Sent: Monday, 2 November 2009 3:12 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fwd: Tuning speed When I first started tuning (48 years ago) my tuning time was 1.5 to 2.0 hours. I then though if I really concentrated on setting the pin in two movements it would shorten the time. So I make it a challenge to only move the hammer only twice for each pin. If I overshot on the second movement I would try harder on the next pin. Robin Stevens ARPT South Australia [Les] So you're saying that you can to a 15 cent pitch raise in only two movements of the pin? How to you gauge the amount you over pull to allow both for the out-of-tune-ness as well as the inconsistency of the pins, and of each individual string? This is completely baffling to me, especially when I tune more than a few concert level pianos. I have some Chinese pianos which are so ghastly that they are 2.5-3 hour tunings.. les bartlett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091102/624f5432/attachment.htm>
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