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<DIV>In a message dated 3/25/2006 12:31:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, BobDavis88@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Pitch correction is the same as tuning, only faster. Assuming the piano is flat, set the A about a third as many beats sharp as it now is flat, then use your normal tuning pattern, only force yourself to rip through it in about 1/4 to 1/3 whatever time it usually takes you to fine tune. If it doesn't come out right on, or average within about 1/2 beat per second in the temperament area, do it again until it does, then fine tune. If the strings are old, or the pitch raise is really huge, make one pass with very little or no overshoot, then see the above.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">I forgot two details - strip muting and the order of tuning. I prefer to strip mute with two strips (of action cloth, split down the middle except for an inch at the end), alternating notes through the triples. That is, the strip goes between unisons, but only every other one. The second strip goes where the other one didn't. In the bass, the strip goes every other space, muting the left string of one unison and the right string of the next. On a grand this strip muting takes me 40-50 seconds, and saves lots of individual muting time. On an upright it takes a little longer. I </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">1. tune the center strings of the temperament, go to the bottom of the triples chromatically, then to the top of the piano chromatically. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">2. </FONT><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">I yank one strip, which exposes the left string of one note, and the right string of the next note, and tune. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">3. Then I pull up the bass LRLR, then pull its strip, tune RLRL, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">4. then yank the remaining strip from the triples and tune them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Your absolute timing will vary from anyone else's but should, as I say, be kept to about 1/4 to 1/3 of whatever it takes you to fine tune.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Bob Davis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>