[pianotech] setting up and tuning

[Carlos Ralon]

To Isaac S.,
Here would be a good place to insert an expression you wrote about learning on the board during one of your classes some time ago.  It may help Marshall and others.  It started something like this:
TL --- To Learn ---  5 years
TLB  --- To Learn Better  10 years 

I wish I could remember the rest but maybe Isaac could fill in from here.

Carlos Ralon, RPT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Porritt, David 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:15 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] setting up and tuning


  Marshall:

   

  On the speed thing, I think you probably have two battles.  First, experience (practice) yields speed.  When you've been doing this 5 more years, or 35 more years, you'll be faster doing a as-good-as-this-can-get tuning.  Second, the other impediment to speed is a really chaotic piano.  If most of the pianos you see are horribly out of tune and needing a pitch raise, you can't expect it to be tuned quickly.  As you return to some of these same customers over and over the pianos will stabilize to the point where you can do them faster.

   

  dave

   

  David M. Porritt, RPT

  dporritt at smu.edu

   

  From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi
  Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 6:51 AM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Subject: [pianotech] setting up and tuning

   

  Hi Everyone,
  Well I don't have an EDT to warm up. I guess I warm up my ears for tuning. :-)  or big grin as some of you guys type in.  
   
  Tuning for me is different. Some pianos take longer than others.  Do anyof you have this trouble?  I notice some of you say it takes about an hyour in a h alf hour and fifteen minutes.  The biggest struggle I have is not a lack of confidence.  The school sure helped me with this.  My struggle is getting everything perfect or at least sounding as good as possible.  I feel as if I'm doing a disservice if I am not too picky with the piano.  So it leads me to ask, how can I just go in and tune that piano and get it done and not labor over so much?  Where is that fine line of "it's only going to be so good" and I've been here so long and the last train is coming in a half hour?"  
   
  I have a stanley tool box the school gave us plastic with the tray that lifts out when I open it.  If any of you can suggest a better tool case/box, I'm all open to it.  This thing is so cramped and hard to find things in.  Thanks
  Marshall


  Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician
  Marshall's Piano Service
  pianotune05 at hotmail.com
  215-510-9400
  Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA








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