old PTJ article

[Farrell]

Unless the responses can be transmitted anonymously, I wouldn't trust
anyone's claim!

This would also depend quite a bit on the piano also. The piano I just
posted about yesterday would go back up the 1/2 step in three or four
movements. I've had some cooperative pins that allowed micro-adjustments -
it was easy to bump it up or down repeatedly in increments of less than one
cent.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:45 PM
Subject: old PTJ article


> Quite an interesteing PTJ article, from 1985, about testing your tuning
> hammer technique. Pick the last string in the tenor/treble section,
> somewhere aroung E-F#5, on an upright piano. Lower the note by 1/2 step,
or
> 100c. Then, making as many SMALL, but definite pin movements as you can,
> bring the note back UP to where you started. The article estimates that a
> beginner will make only about 10 individual pin movements before arriving
> 1/2 step back up, while the seasoned tech will make as many as THIRTY
> separate pin movements. Keep in mind that the pin MUST MOVE in the block
in
> this test; bending or anything else does NOT count, needless to say, but,
> what the hey! Try it and report back to let us know how you did. Remember,
> feel the "ticks."
>
> Terry Peterson
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