I'll state how I do it. Mostly, these days, I tune with an EDT. It's easier. I take my time and no longer do speed tunings. I complete the tuning within 45 minutes to an hour in most cases. By ear, I tune using a temperament starting with C-4. I set pitch first and tune beginning at F-3 proceeding through the temp from F-3 to F-4. If the piano is 1/2 tone or more flat, I don't mute it out at all in the treble or bass. Only in the tenor. I tune the center string all the way up C-8 in octaves. Then, from F-3 down, the center string in the tenor and the top pin in the bass stopping at the single wires. I tear out the tenor strip tuning the top tuning pin from the beginning of the tenor section all the way up through the treble. Starting back at the tenor bass break, I tune the bottom tuning pin continuing all the way down to A0. Starting again on the first note in the tenor section, I tune the bottom tuning pin all the way up C-8. The less often we have to remove a mute, shove something out of our way like a scrw driver or pull on a temperament strip, the more time is saved. In these cases, I never take my hand off from the tuning hammer, holding it in the same position continually, literally, slapping it from one pin to the next pulling the 2nd it hits the pin and is on. Some tuners start with A-4. Some with C-4 some with A0. Whatever works. From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 10:26 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] pitch raising Hi Everyone, When you guys talk about pitch raising, I'm curious just to clarify, do you go through a pitch raise in the same sequence as you would tune the pinao, pull up A4 set a quick temperament then do octaves up and then down? Someone mentioned starting with A 0. Was this just an example? The reason I asked is this. I saw a piano tech. tune from a0 to c88 with an edt and then do unisons. In school we pulled the a slightly sharp and did the pitch raise, and typically it woudl fall on pitch ir we didn't under or over shoot. So then what method do you guys use to do the pitch raise because if we're talking about going through a regular tuning sequence, is it still possible to do that and have it raisedin in 10 minutes having to insert mutes strip mutes etc. Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com <http://www.phillytuner.com/> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA _____ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. <http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID2 8326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100703/331f427b/attachment-0001.htm>
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