Phil, You just can't, period, nobody can. Get a well respected tuner to join you. I've never done these guys/gals, but try this. Put a master tuning on the "main" piano. get help from another tech to match at least your temperament on the main one, and try to match as well as you can from there on the B's from there to top and bottom.... Really, they only give you 5 hours?? That just gives you a "hint" on what they expect. They're probably used to something close. Unisons and fairly clear octaves are all they are looking for. just do that. Don't worry about a perfect temperament....too much time. I would just tune their main piano in the best way you can, get, perhaps the other D as close as you can, and make the B's sound the best they can with the time you're given. Another great tuner is all you can do to help you out. What else can you do??? Regulation prep is right out. All you can do is get a relatively good matching tuning throughout the 5 instruments. No way can you get them all in perfect tune together, so just relax, and do the best you can. I've never dealt with them, but I'm sure it's coming someday... Best of luck, Paul From: "Phil Frankenberg" <philfrank56 at comcast.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Date: 01/11/2011 03:40 PM Subject: [pianotech] My Dillema: 5 Browns In two months the 5 Browns are coming to Chico to give a concert and open rehearsal. With them comes 5 pianos, 2S&S D's and 3 B's. I am expected to tune them all the day they arrive (the open rehearsal day) and the next day which is the day of the concert. I am a good tuner and I'm relatively quick, but there's no way I can do 5 concert tuning in 5 hours and repeat that again the next day. I'm 64 years old and comfortable with two a day and often three, but even when I was 25 I wouldn't have been able to do a good job after the first three. I assume they have done concerts all over the country and other techs have faced something similar. Any advice? Anyone want to trade places with me for a couple of days? I wish I could do it, I'd give them a whopper of a bill. Thanks Phil Frankenberg CSUChico Chico, Ca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110111/df02918f/attachment.htm>
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