[pianotech] Q & A Roundtable

[David Love]

How fast you tune has less to do with how quickly you can decipher whether
there is a beat or not and more to do with how quickly and efficiently you
can use the tuning hammer to manipulate the pin and string segments the
desired amount and leave them in a stable position.  The challenge for most
of us is not in hearing the beats, slow or fast, it's how to use the tuning
hammer on top of a flexible pin moving a string through various friction
points, some of which render better than others, and know that we've arrived
at our destination and that everything will stay there.  Until you
understand and master that, faster or slower audio recognition won't amount
to much saved time.  I'm conducting a short seminar for the local chapter
this week on this very subject.  If I can, I'll write up a synopsis.  There
is a method to the madness.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Kent Swafford
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:00 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Q & A Roundtable

I am guilty as charged in taking taking well over an hour for many tunings,
but, gee, I thought I had good reason...  8^)

The faster beating a unison is, the quicker you should be able to hear the
beats.

The closer a unison is to "in tune" the longer you must listen to hear the
(slower) beats.

So deciding how long to listen to a unison (and how long the tuning takes)
may just be a matter of deciding how finely one wishes to tune.

Kent