[pianotech] high and outside

[Duaine Hechler]

Terry,

- Even though my laptop has an internal microphone, I use an external one (also, the one I have has extended range to 
handle all the frequencies of the piano)

- Do you start from A0 and go up sequentially

- Also, I learned the hard way, do NOT attempt to do any checks and balances until you are done. Because, if you adjust 
anything as you are going along, by the time you get to the end, it WILL be wrong (because of all the movement and 
tension differences)

- The only time I have REAL trouble is when a piano is more than 200 cents flat - which was a antique player piano that 
NEVER had been tuned since it was purchased. And the like. They will take 2 or more passes while I'm there because they 
are so far off.

- Also, as I've said many times before, most of my tunings are major pitch corrections from the get go. So, I have to do 
the best I can do the first time - I think I've had, maybe, 2 clients accept a second tuning appointment within 3 weeks 
to a month.

- All I know is about Cybertuner and it has 3 ranges of Pitch Raises, basically small, med and large. Based on the 
reaction of the spinners' "fill in" handling, if the spinner does not start to fill in, I keep bumping it up to the next 
level.

Thanks about all I can think of now,
Duaine

On 10/28/2012 09:08 PM, Terry Farrell wrote:
> I dunno Duaine, I've been using various ETDs for more than ten years now, and I've tried setting the ETD on the piano in a number of different positions, and I've even talked real sweetly to it, but I've never been able to get one to do a tuning for me. Seems every time I end up tuning the darn thing. Do you have any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
>
>> However, I can see - no - way an ETD can do such a tuning. It almost - had - to be an aural tuning.
>>
>> Or the piano reacted that bad.


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Duaine Hechler
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