[pianotech] tuning without stripping

[John Formsma]

Me too...mostly. Strip muting is always faster for me. I do occasionally
like to tune with two mutes. But the piano has to already be very close in
tune for that to work well.




On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> On 1/12/2013 6:24 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
>
>   From that day on I stopped stripping the piano. Not only did it take 10
>> minutes off my tuning time, but my unisons were much better, and the
>> piano was much more stable. I now even do a pitch raise without a strip
>> mute. But what's so ironic, I now actually take longer to tune, because
>> after I use my SAT, I retune the piano aurally, again only using
>> mutes. I think it has made me a much better tuner.
>>
>
> So you saved ten minutes by not strip muting, but you take longer to tune
> because you tune aurally after you tune with your SAT. Yea, makes perfect
> sense. Why don't you just tune aurally in the first place and save a whole
> bunch of time?
>
>
>
>  For those of you "old timers" who say your too old to change,
>>
>
> Whoever THEY are. And it's "you're", not your.
>
> Personally, I strip mute the entire piano because I like it and it works.
> I used to tune from the temperament octave down, and up, chasing a mute.
> Then one day I decided to try strip muting everything. My tuning got both
> better and faster as a result and though a lot of details have changed,
> I've stayed with the strip mutes because it continues to work for me.
> Ron N
>



-- 
John Formsma, RPT
Blue Mountain, MS
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