Pitch-paying,(was Pounding pins)

[Farrell]

I am envious of folks who tune pianos with una corda pedals. I am further
envious of folks who tune pianos with una corda pedals that apparently do
not cause the hammer to hit the string next door. For some of us others, we
need to filter and adjust much of what we read and hear. I respect much of
what Roger Jolly promulgates (He has some great ideas - Hi Roger!). I have
to adjust it quite a bit though for most of my own work because Roger starts
with the assumption that you are working on a playable piano (actually,
quite a reasonable assumption, because I know that many talented
professionals work on good pianos). Unfortunately, I own the only piano in
my clientele that is of good quality, in very good condition, and the owner
is willing to have whatever work done that is necessary to make it play and
sound great. Someday, someday, someday......

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yat-lam Hong" <yat-lam.hong@wmich.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: Pitch-paying,(was Pounding pins)


> Brilliant!
>
> Diane Hofstetter wrote:
>
> > Sitting here, catching up on email and hitting my forehead with the palm
of
> > my hand!  I never thought of that!  What a wonderful idea!  Can't wait
to
> > find a piano to pitch raise!
> >
> >   Thanks, Ed!
> >
> > Ed Foote said:
> > >         I use the una corda to tune the middle string first, then
release
> > >it
> > >to tune the left side string,  move the mute to the next space between
> > >notes
> > >and tune the right side string of the unison.  I do it this way to
halve
> > >the
> > >number of times I pick up the mute, to have an eaiser target to hit
with
> > >the
> > >mute when I do move it, and to give my feet something to do while I
tune.
> > >
> >
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