[pianotech] high and outside

[Terry Farrell]

Thanks Wim. I thought I was being pretty obvious.....  :-(

On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:38 AM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:

> Duaine
>  
> I'm sure Terry appreciates all your suggestions, but read his post again. I don't think he really needed all this advice.
>  
> Wim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net>
> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 5:51 pm
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] high and outside
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> (314) 838-5587 / dahechler at att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
> Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years
> 

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