I must agree with Ed here. Besides the "cats meowing" (love that term), I tune some pianos where (mostly in the bass) the initial attack is flat, sometimes shape and even some notes that starts flat, go sharp then settles in. Or in reverse. I think you need about 2 seconds to determine whether the pitch is dead on or not. I usually go with the 2 second rule to be sure that each note is where is should be. Al - High Point, NC From: Ed Foote Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:35 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises;forearm smash Ron writes: > Hi David, > From past observations rather than specific knowledge of what you, > personally, are doing, I find that tuners taking well over an hour are > all doing the same thing. They listen too long, and tune way too deep > into the tone envelope. Tuning into the decay is a waste of time and > effort, I think. Pretty much everything you need is in the first half > second of the note. Umm, not for me. After the unison is close enough to stop beating, there are still cats meowing over thenext second or two that will be missed if I only spend 1/2 second. The bigger the piano, the more true this is. Regards, Ed Foote RpT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101104/37af5659/attachment.htm>
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