[pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises; forearm smash

[David Nereson]

    Thanks very much, Ron.  I've always intuitively suspected 
some of those things, but once had a client who complained that 
his previous tuner wasn't listening long enough to each unison, 
so I determined not to make the same "mistake."
    --David Nereson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch 
raises; forearm smash

> Hi David,
> From past observations rather than specific knowledge of what 
> you, personally, are doing, I find that tuners taking well 
> over an hour are all doing the same thing. They listen too 
> long, and tune way too deep into the tone envelope. Tuning 
> into the decay is a waste of time and effort, I think. Pretty 
> much everything you need is in the first half second of the 
> note. You know what you're listening for, know where to listen 
> for it, and know where to go with it when you hear it. That 
> ought to happen nearly instantly, and that's where you start 
> tuning. Listening beyond that is giving away time without 
> helping the tuning. . . . . . <<