Moving from Uprights to Grands

[Avery Todd]

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At 10:22 AM 7/21/05, you wrote:

Michael, IMO, that has nothing at all to do with the fact that he 
used a temp. strip!

Avery

>He used a felt strip and I cringed - yes... cringed.... as he poked 
>the felt between the strings to lay the bearings. I am very glad 
>ears were invented :-) Incidentally when he got to the top all h*ll 
>broke loose. He - had - no - idea... how to get the top strings 
>right - and that was after a three year course..... How do those 
>postal courses work if there's no-one to monitor your results? I'm 
>baffled. Yes... baffled. ;-)
>Regards from a beautiful, hot, sunny day in Sussex where there's a 
>"Hosepipe Ban!" now in force. Our reservoirs are running low.
>Michael G.(UK) (baffled)
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>Farrell
>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech
>Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:23 PM
>Subject: Re: Moving from Uprights to Grands
>
>"It has always been looked down upon in the profession here if a 
>tuner still has to use a temperament strip..."
>
>What kind of an environment is it where other piano technicians 
>watch what another piano technician does during a tuning? I don't 
>think any tech has ever watched me tune a piano, and only once have 
>I watched someone else tune a piano.
>
>Oh, maybe another tech saw me tune years ago when I was doing some 
>floor tunings at a dealer.
>
>Terry Farrell
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Byeway222@aol.com>Byeway222@aol.com
>
>The whole business of strip muting for either the temperament octave 
>or even into the further reaches of the piano has alway been 
>controversial here in UK.  Probably like Michael I was trained very 
>traditionally, to discard the strip mute quite early on and rely on 
>one's ear for laying the temperament with just two wedges.  It has 
>always been looked down upon in the profession here if a tuner still 
>has to use a temperament strip, almost suggesting that his/her ear 
>is not reliable enough to do without it.  The analogy being a baby's 
>walking frame I suppose!   Because  of this early influence I can 
>actually feel 'ashamed' if I resort to using  a strip or rubber gang 
>mute on a difficult piano. Do i need psychoanalysis?  However, I 
>could actually argue pretty stongly in favour of using them with 
>very small grands and uprights where inharmonicity is so pronounced 
>that setting an acceptable temperament can take more than one pass, 
>and using this aid would be quicker.  When this topic comes under 
>discussion over here it is generally argued that the temperament is 
>not exactly the same when you return to complete the unisons and 
>that the whole excercise can be more time consuming.
>It would be interesting to know what proportion of tuners is 'mute free'
>Ric

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