What is your pitch raise method John? I know many techs say they do a pitch raise in 20 minutes or so. I usually take about 40 to 45 minutes. I would very much like to speed up my technique. Thanks! Terry Farrell On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:48 AM, John Formsma wrote: > I have tried it...with poor results each time. > > A pitch raise usually takes me only 15-20 minutes, so it's not like I'm saving much time. And I've given away huge amounts of accuracy with the "blind" method. > > -- > John Formsma, RPT > Blue Mountain, MS > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >> I've never attempted a blind overpull, > > > CHICKEN!!!!!!!! Boy, not me though. I've done it a couple of times - VERY fast and VERY easy. > > And then I spent a half-hour pulling in strings that ended up 50 cents off this way and that, etc., etc. My attempts were disastrous. But hey, I tried it! I just don't see how it would be possible to do a blind pitch raise and get everything within a couple cents - or even all within an average of a couple cents. But then, there are lots of things I find difficult to do - very often just because I am not skilled at it. I dunno - maybe with practice. But even with practice, it just doesn't seem likely to come close enough. I'd really like to watch someone do a "good enough" 60-cent pitch raise blindly and have the piano ready for a good one-pass tuning (i.e. have the piano within a few cents of target for tuning pass). It would be very interesting. > > Terry Farrell > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:11 AM, paul bruesch wrote: > >> Thanks Joe, >> >> I do "do the math", or at least very rough math, to compensate for the restrictions imposed by only having 25% or 34% options. I thought Terry's statement that he uses the Sanderson method meant that he was using a SAT and that maybe his SAT was capable of calculating different percentages than my SAT3... he's since clarified that. (Thanks, Terry!) >> >> I've never attempted a blind overpull, and don't plan to any time in the foreseeable future. Even after (only) 8 years at this I don't feel comfortable enough to try it. >> >> Paul Bruesch >> Stillwater, MN >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Joe Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com> wrote: >> hi Paul, >> if you do the math you can make the sat do any thing. on most pianos I measure a2 if it is say 40 cents flat I change it to 20 and enter. >> tune the bass. measure the first tenor note. if it is a spinet I deduct 5 percent from the reading and enter. large pianos 25 percent. recheck at >> Bb 4 or C 5 depending on how many notes are left before the break 25 percent re check at break and f6 c7 each time using 25 percent >> I do check along the way and like to have the newly tunes note sharp of the octave and sort of in the ball park with the 4th and 5th.. >> around f6 I tune and leave the first and second string about 3 to 5 cts sharp and zero in the 3rd string. Check with ear and re tune if needed. >> The process takes me about 45 minutes with the piano ready to tune 15 to 30 minutes or 1:30 Min >> the above is done using heavy test blows. >> >> Never have been successful with the blind over pull,it always results in me re tuning a squirrely piano several times to get it stable. >> The above tuning is done with heavy test blows >> >> Joe >> > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20121031/d1c4483c/attachment-0001.htm>
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