freebies

[Jonathan Finger]

Call me crazy, but I think it's possible to get a stable tuning without
banging the heck out of each note.

I think if you've developed a good enough technique of moving the pin in
the wood, you can put the pitch where you want it, and not have to
strike it into place.  

I know that many will disagree, but I don't believe that banging notes
will necessarily equalize the tension across all points.  I've played
with this quite a bit over the last several years, and have found my
tunings to equally as stable (or more so) when I concentrate on setting
the pin, and not using test blows.

For those of you who know me, you know that I try to do quality work,
and you know that when I say "stable" I mean it.

Also, if I over-pull a note, and it ends up right where I want it (even
after a bit of FF playing, then why would I think it isn't stable?
Yes this freebie is welcome... the fewer notes I move, the more stable I
would think the tuning to be.

Regards,

Jonathan Finger RPT.


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:28 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: freebies

The pretty much universal consensus as I read it is that a first pass
pitch 
correction, however large or small, is done as quickly as possible.
Little 
time is wasted on stability. The idea is to get the tension up, get it
in 
the ball park, and get on with it. Something in the vicinity of 20-25 
minutes seems to be about average.

Pass two, I then read, is to clean up pass one, which the pitch
correction 
features of the ETD got so close on the first pass that many strings
don't 
have to be moved at all.

So in the case where freebies (a serendipitous artifact of pass one) are

cheerfully accepted as a windfall benefit during pass two, how can a 
finished tuning that has a number of strings on which no attempt has
been 
made to settle and stabilize them be a decent and solid tuning?

Does not compute.
Ron N

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