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

[David Love]

Neither am I addressing all the details.  The method you describe is
helpful, but rapid fire playing of the note or learning to hear earlier in
the envelope doesn't amount to much if you don't know how to control the
movement of the pin.  I wouldn't consider that either bottomless or
peripheral to the discussion.  So be it.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman [mailto:rnossaman at cox.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 12:24 PM
To: davidlovepianos at comcast.net; pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises;
forearm smash

On 11/5/2010 1:46 PM, David Love wrote:
> That's sadly dismissive. I don't think I'd characterize learning to
> pay attention to the tactile aspect of tuning (the essence of what
> I'm saying) esoterica or psychological pathology. It's an important,
> maybe critical, aspect of tuning often not mentioned or discussed.
> Hearing is one thing, controlling the pin is something very different
> and an essential skill that would not be fairly characterized as
> "easy" for those trying to learn..

I'm not addressing all the details, nor am I particularly interested in 
discussing them as opinions. Lacking even data, let alone facts, 
opinions are all I have there, so that pretty much decides it for me. My 
suggestion dealt directly with a very basic and very simple approach to 
wasting less time in the tuning process without sacrificing quality. It 
was never intended to answer all the questions, and account for all the 
details, and it never will. Neither will I. You may proceed without me, 
with my blessing, as deeply into it as you wish. I've delivered the 
information I think I'm qualified to pass on as useful and proven. That 
was, and is, my intent. If being reluctant to be sucked into what is 
most likely a bottomless discussion peripheral to the question is sadly 
dismissive, then so be it.

Ron N