That depends entirely on the piano itself. Some up right up to pitch and right in tune. Others have to brought sharp a bit and dropped. It doesn't take me long to figure out what I have to do on the piano and that's what I do. My dad always told me that "you have to let the piano know who's boss. You control it. It, does not, control you." There is a lot of truth to that. Jerry Groot RPT www.grootpiano.com -----Original Message----- From: Duaine Hechler To: pianotech Sent: 2013-01-20 23:36:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated) The one thing that, in my last couple of tunings, I am trying to do is to concentrate on - not - going way sharp before honing in on the unisons. I shaved off about 10 minutes, the last couple of times. Do most of you come up to pitch or go sharp then come back down? I learned to go sharp then come back down, except in the high tenor, I seem to here it better coming up to pitch. Thanks, Duaine On 01/12/2013 04:41 PM, Mike Kurta wrote: > I had my wife sew two lengths together. Voila! Now I have only one mute strip to contend with. Length is no > problem, when I put it away I fold it in half length, half again, and lay it in my case. Easy. > Mike Kurta >> ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Ron Nossaman <mailto:rnossaman at cox.net>> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>> *Sent:* Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:45 AM > *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated) >> On 1/12/2013 8:06 AM, tunerboy3 at comcast.net <mailto:tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote: >>> You order it like one solid piece, something like 72" or 84" long or >> so, and cut to desired length or, don't cut it at all. I ordered 6 >> or 10 of them so I could experiment with it. I wound up cutting one >> of them down the center all the way and using that one in the treble. >> I cut a strip diagonally down it's length and get two tapered lengths. > Ideal in verticals to get around the dampers in that last section where > there's no room - especially in Baldwins. A full width strip works very > well in the bass, or two of them if one leaks too much. Pearl River > passed out a terrific strip at the convention one year. Thin action > cloth sewed to buckskin (or Ecsaine, but it acts like buckskin). Best > tenor strip I've ever used in grands. I've wished I had managed to get a > couple more, but they were pretty protective of them and they wouldn't > be difficult to make when the one I have gives up the ghost. >>>> I don't now why but string spacing tends to >> be a little greater in the tenor on verticals than in the treble. >> Fan angles, I'd say. I use a narrow strip of thicker action cloth here. > Ron N > -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler at att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 13 years
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