Sounds reasonable. May just have to try it sometime when opening the lid is not easy, or when I can't sit on the side. I've been developing my left hand tuning technique where the swinging end of the tuning lever is pointed toward the bass for times when I can't lift the lid or sit on the side. I'm not as fast with my left hand, but I've gotten to the point where I have pretty good control. I also have a nice long extension - maybe I'll have to give it a try sometime for those situations. Thanks. Terry Farrell On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Porritt, David wrote: > Terry: > > I have a tuning lever head with a 5-inch extension. When I get up > to where the hammer handle would hit the side, I switch heads and > just keep going. It took a little getting used to at first, but is > now second nature. If you stand while tuning that area the feel of > the lever is just like the feel with the shorter head when seated. > > At the university, all grand pianos in studios are covered with > music 6 – 8 inches high (and sometimes higher). It would take a lot > of time to unload them and it’s not worth it. The only time I > raised the top was if I had to replace a string lower in the scale > than the highest capo section. > > dave > > > David M. Porritt, RPT > dporritt at smu.edu > > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] > On Behalf Of Terry Farrell > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:22 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] butterfuly grand > > I lift the lid on grand pianos to tune them because I sit on the > treble side of the piano to tune the treble-most string section. > When I sit there, my tuning lever is roughly parallel to the strings > and the lid would be in the way if it were down. Where do you sit to > tune the high treble? > > Terry Farrell > > On Jun 2, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Porritt, David wrote: > > > Les: > > I have done one butterfly several times in the past. The lid is > always up. I don’t remove tops to tune, I don’t even raise the lid > on pianos unless I have to get to a broken string. Pianos are loud > enough that I always wear hearing protectors. Why would I want to > raise the lid to tune it? > > dp > > > David M. Porritt, RPT > dporritt at smu.edu > > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] > On Behalf Of Leslie Bartlett > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:12 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: [pianotech] butterfuly grand > > To those who’ve tuned a M&H Butterfly grand, did you completely > remove the lid to do it? I’m going back for a second tuning of this > beautifully redone little piano, and am a bit reticent to remove the > whole lid because of possible accidental scratching, but afraid not > to because of difficulty of tuning. Advice, please……. Thanks > Les bartlett > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100602/a3fedd14/attachment-0001.htm>
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