<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Tom,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Very impressive, a 20 minute tuning! Just curious, though; if the piano was only 2c sharp, why drop the pitch that small amount (especially given the circumstances)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Allen<br><div><div>On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:47 AM, <a href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">pianotech-request@ptg.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">Allen</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">The piano was delivered in a heavy down pour of rain and the pitch was A440+ 2 cents. Although it held decently from the day before all pins had to be tuned due to the raise in pitch.</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">My normal routine is with a single mute only, doing unisons as I go. I also keep my Accutuner going in the background as a good general guide and I tweak the best position as I go.</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">This was a legitimate full tuning with all pins being tuned and with a slight pitch adjustment thrown in, just to make it interesting.</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">Prior to this event, my best time usually was around 28 mins, however I shattered that by 8 mins. I make no bones about...I'm a fast tuner as I have had to do quite a bit of concert type tunings on a very limited time basis.</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">I'm with the 5 Browns this week. They are the 5 siblings from one family who went to Julliard, and travel around with 5 Steinway C& A pianos. I'm in charge of the piano prep for their S. Florida tour all week. That's getting 5 pianos out of a truck (with help of course), getting them set up and tuned, then getting them torn down and loaded back in the truck x 5 days. That's one of the reasons why I've learned to be able to tune fast and efficient.</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">This is the type of world I'll live in up until Easter. Very intense, very fast paced, and exhausting work for about 5 months.</font></div><div><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2">Tom</font></div></span></blockquote></div><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>