45 min tunings

John M. Formsma jformsma@dixie-net.com
Tue, 16 May 2000 23:08:48 -0500


List,

There has been mention on the list from those who routinely do a normal
tuning in 45 minutes or less. For those of you who can do this aurally...

Would all your tunings pass the tuning exam for the RPT test, or are some
below par? If no, how do you justify leaving a piano below "minimal"
standards?

Do you tune that fast for concerts, or just for "lower-end" tunings?

How long do you spend on temperament, octaves, unisons?

How even is the piano? I.e., are all the intervals ascending/descending
evenly?

What kind of stability is achieved?

How are your unisons? Three strings perfectly tuned, really close, or what?

Do you concentrate mostly on good unisons and octaves?

Any other thing I have left out?

Thanks in advance,

John Formsma
Blue Mountain, MS







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