Unison Flatter than each Individual string?

[David Ilvedson]

So if you could build a tuning jig, you might consider it?..;-]

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:11:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Unison Flatter than each Individual string?


>>So you don't upgrade your shop tools, etc?

>Sure I do. And when I have a large number of repetitive operations to do in
>the shop, I build jigs to do the thinking for me and keep the uniformity of
>the result as high as I can. Then I just mind the needs of the jig during
>the process. The results are more uniform, hopefully faster cycle time,
>with considerably less demand on me to produce those results. It also makes
>it a lot less interesting. The fun is in designing and building the jig.



>> >Maybe they're scared to death they will find out how bad
>> >a tuner they really are if they had a means of comparison.
>>
>>A very real possiblity...

>Interesting point to pick out from that paragraph.



>>Yeah, good points all of them...with this imperfection of the piano I
>>don't see the
>>need to waste any more of my energy on the "hand-made" piano tuning than
>>necessary.

>Ah, but the personal decision of what is wasted energy and what is
>necessary is precisely the point.


>>The whole wonderfulness of the ETD is letting it do the roughing in and
>>letting your ear do the fine stuff.

>Absolutely. I wouldn't give up my jigs without a fight. I'm a better
>producer of tedious repetitive task results because of them.

>Ron N