[pianotech] Exams discussion - Odd?

[Encore Pianos]

Duane, in all of the hundreds of posts that you have placed on this forum, I
don't recall you ever once sharing your excitement about something new and
interesting that you discovered or learned from someone else that helps make
you better at some aspect of this business.  Not once.  

 

The "wow" factor starts with me - if I please myself it excites me and gets
my juices flowing.  The praise of my customers is icing on the cake.  

 

We are not in a big money business, so personal satisfaction is very
important for many of us. 

 

Will Truitt 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Koval
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 10:44 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Exams discussion - Odd?

 

Hi Duaine,  I aim for the "wow" factor for all the pianos I see...  No,
really!

 

My piano teachers must've taken on a bunch of new students, because I've
just finished a few weeks

of new clients - many with pianos just as you describe - the worst being a
200 cent pitch raise...

 

They (mostly) know that the first visit is "clearing out the barn" - so
there's less expectations in play.  Still, by using

the methods I've outlined (no traditional aural skills required), partnered
with the Verituner running custom styles, I 

expect that the tuning calculation (if the piano were stable enough) would
get me to a "wow" tuning.

 

Painless partnering with a glorified calculator.  You can apply the same
techniques to get better tunings using any of

the ETD's that measure inharmonicity and let you alter the stretch...

 

 

Ron Koval

 

 

 

 

 

OK, enough with the "wow" factor. Where would you use such tunings ?

 

Symphonies, maybe, BUT, the piano is only one instrument in the rest of
them.

 

For the average Joe like me, that tunes for home owners - who usually new to
old beaters, and churches, who almost 

never, have solos anymore - they are in some sort of a praise band.

 

So, the "wow" factor must be for those "elite" customers - who really give a
damn about how a piano sounds - Right ?

 

Which I would probably refuse to tune for them............

 

Just sayin'

 

-- 

Duaine Hechler

Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ

Tuning, Servicing&  Rebuilding

Reed Organ Society Member

Florissant, MO 63034

(314) 838-5587

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