My first tuning attempt

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You shouldn't be a tuner! You should be a CONCERT PIANIST!

Terry Peterson



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From: Mark Purney <engineering at raktron.com>
Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: My first tuning attempt
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:19:08 -0700

I had my first tuning lesson today - very enjoyable. Mr. Coleman is a great 
instructor and one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. He showed me how to 
tune unisons in the middle octave and how to take inharmonicity readings in 
Tunelab.

After that I went over to my church to practice tuning unisons on the old 
spinet that nobody uses, and I got a bit carried away. I ended up tuning the 
whole piano. It took about 3 hours, and I found the highest octave to be 
very challenging, but I started to get the hang of it (I think).

I decided to make audio recordings of the piano before and after tuning so I 
could compare. I think I did okay for a first try, but I'd appreciate any 
advice or pointers on what I did wrong, etc. The whole piano was a little 
flat and I did not use overpull. I started at A0 and went up in order, so 
that may be why the lower octaves seem a little off from the higher octaves.

Before:   http://www.raktron.com/piano/before.wma

After:     http://www.raktron.com/piano/after.wma

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