Going over it twice

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Duh, sorry,

I ain´t most people.  I ain´t got no brains.

nnitsirK.




At 11:38 18.5.2000 EDT, you wrote:
>Actually I did, Kristinn.  Most piano tuners voice hammers, so that is 
>implied that the needling is done to the hammer felts. Through the top of 
>the strings, meaning from the direction of the top and not pulling the 
>action is implied between the strings. American English has many 
>idiosyncracies (sp?).  Most people would have understood that post, but I do 
>come from the land of "define is"! :)
>
>Carol Beigel
>
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>>From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
>>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>>Subject: Re: Going over it twice
>>Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:10:17 +0100
>>
>>So, do you needle anything more than the strings; dampers, fallboard?
>>
>>Thou hath not readeth thine message three times as thou shouldeth!
>>
>>Krsitinn
>>
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>>
>>At 10:36 18.5.2000 EDT, you wrote:
>> >I agree that it is faster to tune a piano by going over it twice than
>> >belabor the first pass.  Sometimes, the notes just move!  My first pass 
>>with
>> >Cybertuner takes about 25 minutes.  I then put the laptop back in its 
>>case
>> >and do the second pass by ear.  It just takes a few minutes to take care 
>>of
>> >anything I think I can improve upon.  It  also takes another few minutes 
>>to
>> >touch up the voicing using a single needle through the top of the 
>>strings.
>> >I find that about 80% of the effort in making a piano sound better is 
>>that
>> >last few minutes I spend voicing.  The whole service call, including
>> >cleaning keys and dusting, takes 45-60 minutes.
>> >
>> >When you tune string by string (instead of muting entire sections) you 
>>can
>> >catch your mistakes (in the unisons) faster. If I spent more than an hour 
>>in
>> >someones house, my clients would think that there was something majorly
>> >wrong with their piano or with me!
>> >
>> >Carol Beigel, RPT
>> >Greenbelt, Maryland
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