Tuning Time

[Carol Beigel]

My first attempt at tuning was with an ETD and it took about 6 hours. AFter 
5 years of practice, it would take me about 1-1/2 hours. AFter 10 years of 
practice, I could tune a piano in 20 minutes if I had to.

I don't think it matters what kind of a gadget one uses, or even if one 
tunes aurally, there are still about 235 tuning pins on a piano.  Even if 
you spent an average of 5 seconds on each one, it still comes out to about 
20 minutes.

The use of an impact hammer allowed one tuner, Coleman, Sr.? to tune a piano 
in about 10 minutes!  Practice is everything.

Carol Beigel, RPT


>From: LHSBAND440@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Tuning Time
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:45:15 EDT
>
>How long should It take to tune a piano if you are using an Accu-tuner and
>tuning from A0 to C8, in that order, and using the Accu-tuner to tune the
>unisons as well.  I am at 3 hours.

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