[pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises; forearm smash

[David Love]

I disagree.  I think it is exactly that and I don't think it's that easy.
If it were that easy then those who tuned pianos for 20 years would
eventually just get it.  But many don't.  Most people at a certain point
don't get any better (I know people who've played golf for 40 years and
they're just as bad as they were 30 years ago, maybe worse).  It's not
because they can't, it's because they haven't learned intuitively or
consciously to focus on the proper inputs and practice those things that
will help them reach the next level.  That's the hard part.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:34 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises;
forearm smash

On 11/5/2010 11:16 AM, David Love wrote:

> Think of it this way, the best tennis players don't need to actually see
the
> serve coming at them at 150 mph to know where it's going, they can
> anticipate from the body position and movement of the server and so can
> begin to react before the ball is actually on its way.  And that's what
they
> do.  It's a learned skill coming from countless hours of practice and
> feedback.  The same is true in tuning a piano.  You (hopefully) learn to
> anticipate the outcome from other feedback that you are getting.  It takes
> countless hours of practice but moreover a focus on developing an
awareness
> of those other inputs.  That's what peak performance is all about.
>
> David Love


Not exactly. This isn't a top of the mountain exalted expert thing. It's 
a very simple, very basic attitude approach that I've found to be useful 
to both right out of the egg beginners as well as techs with a lifetime 
of inefficient tuning behind them. It's easy to do, and just requires 
the (long proved difficult) suspension of intuitive disbelief necessary 
to actually try it for a while. The process is simple, it's the 
entrenched convictions that are the brick wall. You can't teach anyone 
anything. They have to want to learn enough to try a few things.
Ron N