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

[Dean May]

I always say: I know what I'm listening for, I focus very well and my
experience level makes my every motion very efficient which saves a lot of
time. Some guys have trouble focusing on what they need to hear. They
eventually get it, but it takes quite a bit longer. 


Dean

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PianoRebuilders.com    (888) DEAN-MAY

Terre Haute IN 47802


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Nereson
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:33 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises;forearm
smash

    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. 
> . . . . . <<