David Ilvedson wrote: > > That's where a ETD really shines...2 passes and your at pitch, rough > tuned. When you come back in a few months it will be close to pitch... > > I've never come across a piano that flat unless I was was restringing > it...'-] Count yourself lucky. Many years ago, I was called on to tune and "make work" an absolutely gorgeous birdcage from about 1850. It looked like it should be in a museum behind a velvet rope. It also probably hadn't been tuned in a half century or so. The pinblock had issues. The customer just wanted it to play, so tuning it to itself at the highest pitch the pins would allow was agreed to be the best option. After doing what regulation was possible, I wound up setting C# to my A fork and proceeded to do a "normal" tuning, trying to separate the pitch in my ears from what my hands told me. Fortunately, I'd already played games with my set of chromatic forks and could set a temperament starting on any note. (this was >20 years before I got my ETD). Tuning from the "A" fork meant that the beat speeds were in the accustomed range. -- Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
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