I'm just jealous of some of you folks. I'm not quite in the 40,000-serviced piano catagory yet (still working on my first 1,000 - although likely getting close!), and a couple pitch raises and a good tuning in an hour or so is FAST! Also, I try to work pretty fast doing a pitch raise on a newer piano, or one that is not very flat, but as the piano gets older (old uprightitis) crustier, I tend to take a good half hour on a big pitch raise pass - largely to try & be careful to not break strings or whatever. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barrie Heaton" <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 7:06 AM Subject: Re: tuning question > In article <001101c03a8b$50d0cbe0$d1165c18@tampabay.rr.com>, Farrell > <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> writes > >I know what the problem is! You are tuning too fast. You pitch raised > >(major, HA! - that was a world record!) a piano 600 cents and fine tuned it > >in just under two hours? You gotta be bionic. Are you for rent? > > Major 5th pitch in * 50 minutes and a concert played on it when > finished, there is a video if E Wilkings doing it, first pass with no > mutes. > > Barrie > > * not positive on the exact time but was under the hour > > -- > Barrie Heaton PGP key on request http://www.a440.co.uk/ > AcryliKey Ivory Repair System UK © http://www.acrylikey.co.uk/ > The U.K. Piano Page © http://www.uk-piano.org/ > Home to the UK Piano Industry >
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