<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; WORD-WRAP: break-word; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; khtml-line-break: after-white-space"><BR>"Quickest way to get the strings on pitch"????   Do you mean roughly tuned, i.e. pitch raised????   If the piano is 1/2 step flat you could just tune each string to the string above...<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Michelle Smith" <MICHELLE@CDAUSTIN.COM><BR>To: "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 3/25/2006 12:02:44 PM<BR>Subject: Tuning from scratch<BR><BR> <P align=left><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>Hi all.  Quick question from a new tuning student.  If you come across a piano that is totally out of whack (or a piano that you've restrung), and you don't have an electronic tuner (heaven forbid!), what's the quickest way to get the strings on pitch?  Being a music teacher, I can figure it out but it takes a <B>really</B> long time.  Any tricks of the trade?</P> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Thanks!</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Michelle Smith</DIV> <DIV>Student Tuner</DIV> <DIV>Bastrop, Texas</DIV></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>