Here's what I would suggest. If you have a piano or pianos available that aren't customers instruments, tune them working strictly on speed, not fine accuracy. Do it a number of times, pushing for more and more speed. After 5-10 speed tunings, tune a piano for accuracy. I think you will find that your speed will have increased without sacrificing quality. Do this periodically and you'll get faster and faster each time. Working for speed forces you to rely on your ear to make quick decisions instead of over thinking the process. You want to get to a point where your ears and your hands work together without having to think about the process. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Gisondi To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:50 AM 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091211/d4028ec6/attachment.htm>
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