45 min tunings

[Paul]

John
My speed was helped by developing as many checks as possible with one hand;
strip mute the entire piano; good hammer technique; eliminate wasted
motions. Piano is or brought to A440. No stability problems. 45 minutes is
an average. Close attention is paid to clean octaves and unisons. Temperment
set in 5-8 minutes checking it with 4 sets of tests. Then the bass is tuned,
open strings first then pull the mute.I save the unison tunings in the
tricords for last, using a full step technique I learned from Dan Leviton's
class At the Kansas City national. I tune for many professional musicians
and seldom get any complaints.

Paul Chick
--- Original Message -----
From: John M. Formsma <jformsma@dixie-net.com>
To: PianoTech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:08 PM
Subject: 45 min tunings


> List,
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> 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...
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> 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?
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> Do you tune that fast for concerts, or just for "lower-end" tunings?
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> How long do you spend on temperament, octaves, unisons?
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> How even is the piano? I.e., are all the intervals ascending/descending
> evenly?
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> What kind of stability is achieved?
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> How are your unisons? Three strings perfectly tuned, really close, or
what?
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> Do you concentrate mostly on good unisons and octaves?
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> Any other thing I have left out?
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> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Formsma
> Blue Mountain, MS
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