Standard Pitch

[cswearingen@daigger.com]

Hello Everyone,

20 minutes for a pitch raise?  Ok, maybe.  20 minutes for a rough tune?
That seems to be a difficult proposition.  20 minutes for a fine tune?
This, I just don't understand.

Maybe I'm just slow but it's rare for me to complete a pitch raise under 30
minutes.  Then, for fine tuning, checking, and nitpicking the unisons -
it's a good 60-90 minutes for me.  So, throwing in a pitch raise, it's a
2-hour workload.

I've only been tuning for a few years so I guess if you've been doing it
for 20 years on a daily basis, you get to be pretty quick.

Any other slow tuners out there??

Corte Swearingen
Chicago


                                                                                                         
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Aural: Semitone pitch raise = 15-20 mins, rough tune 20 mins fine tuning 20
mins  checks 10 mins

times vary according to state and condition of piano.


then schedule another tuning for a week later

Brian



 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Scott Jackson
 To: Pianotech
 Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:43 PM
 Subject: Re: Standard Pitch

 Michael did say ALL done in 90 minutes.
 If this includes pitch raise AND tuning, sounds fair enough. If this is 90
 minutes just for the pitch raise....... well, then I'll jump!

 Scott Jackson
 Wollongong, Australia


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Farrell
  To: Pianotech
  Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:26 PM
  Subject: Re: Compression in Soundboards

  Michael wrote:

  "And it's all done in 90 minutes flat."

  Now this is a post about adjusting piano pitch to standard pitch. Isn't
  anyone going to jump on this guy for the above statement? Or is he still
  too new to the list - honeymoon and all .......

  ;-)

  Terry Farrell


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Michael Gamble" <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
  To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
  Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:04 PM
  Subject: Re: Compression in Soundboards

  > Hello Don - I've frequently found, when being asked to tune a piano for
  the
  > first time, that it's anything up to a  semi-tone flat. This I can't
  abide
  > and, if the piano merits it (and considering it was built to withstand
  the
  > tension of A = 440) I jolly well bring it up to pitch there and then. I
  have
  > great success in doing this with no repercussions. The piano sounds so
  much
  > better - it actually almost says "thank you!" Sometimes I get one or
  two
  > broken strings - but that's rare. And it's all done in 90minutes flat.
  As
  > for your 4-5 cents flat I work with the London Philharmonic and such
  people
  > and to tune anywhere short of A = 440 would be courting a walk-out!
  > Michael G (UK)
  >
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