[pianotech] setting up and tuning

[Isaac Sadigursky]

  Hi,Carlos!
  Here is the answer;
IT TAKES 20 YEARS TO BECOME AN OVERNIGHT SUCCESS! [Important rule in  
Hollywood]

Another one:  it applies to cooking,astronomy,poetry,Nuclear physics  
and piano tuning:
10 years to  learn
another 10 years to MASTER it
another 10 years to make it look like it's EASY
  See you in Vegas!!! Best for the Holidays!!!!  isaac
On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Carlos Ralon wrote:

> 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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