Tom, Very impressive, a 20 minute tuning! Just curious, though; if the piano was only 2c sharp, why drop the pitch that small amount (especially given the circumstances)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Allen On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:47 AM, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > Allen > The piano was delivered in a heavy down pour of rain and the pitch > was A440+ 2 cents. Although it held decently from the day before > all pins had to be tuned due to the raise in pitch. > My normal routine is with a single mute only, doing unisons as I > go. I also keep my Accutuner going in the background as a good > general guide and I tweak the best position as I go. > This was a legitimate full tuning with all pins being tuned and > with a slight pitch adjustment thrown in, just to make it interesting. > Prior to this event, my best time usually was around 28 mins, > however I shattered that by 8 mins. I make no bones about...I'm a > fast tuner as I have had to do quite a bit of concert type tunings > on a very limited time basis. > I'm with the 5 Browns this week. They are the 5 siblings from one > family who went to Julliard, and travel around with 5 Steinway C& A > pianos. I'm in charge of the piano prep for their S. Florida tour > all week. That's getting 5 pianos out of a truck (with help of > course), getting them set up and tuned, then getting them torn down > and loaded back in the truck x 5 days. That's one of the reasons > why I've learned to be able to tune fast and efficient. > This is the type of world I'll live in up until Easter. Very > intense, very fast paced, and exhausting work for about 5 months. > Tom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080108/0b24c09e/attachment.html
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