How long does it take to tune the average Piano?

[Roy Ulrich]

Don't know fer sure, but I'll need at least a half an hour to fix the
bench...


Roy Ulrich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: How long does it take to tune the average Piano?


> How quickly do you think you could tune the piano at:
> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/stephen_airy  (click on
> pianostuff then 1982 badly out-of-tune piano) and
> listen to the 2 recordings that are there.  When I get
> a chance I might post several more, maybe later today
> or this weekend.
>
> --- Jon Page <jonpage@mediaone.net> wrote:
> > At 01:56 PM 04/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Oh man, how did you manage that?
> > >That would give you like 7 seconds or something on
> > every string. Taking away
> > >the time it takes to move the hammer and the mutes
> > (~2s if you are very
> > >fast) would give you 5 seconds. You didnt do any
> > checkup intervalls I
> > >pressume? ;)
> > >
> > >Is there any guiness worldrecord in tuning the
> > piano?
> > >
> > >/Daniel Lindholm Stockholm / Sweden
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: <d.l.ezell@att.net>
> > >To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:08 PM
> > >Subject: Re: How long does it take to tune the
> > average Piano?
> > >
> > > >I have tuned a piano in as
> > > > little as 30 minutes but as I said some pianos
> > are just
> > > > easier to tune.
> > >
> > > > Donald L. Ezell
> >
> > You'd be surprised at how good a speed tuning will
> > sound.  Some pianos
> > won't sound any better after three hours of tuning
> > as opposed to this brief
> > encounter.
> >
> > There is a world record. Steve Fairchild from
> > Connecticut claims this. At a
> > seminar
> > he gave a demonstration of a 1/2 step pitch raise
> > and tuning in 18 minutes.
> > Check
> > the Guinnes Book to check his record.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jon Page,   piano technician
> > Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> > mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
> > http://www.stanwoodpiano.com
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
>
>
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