<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> Many jobs in piano work benefit from a circular approach.  That includes regulation, tuning and voicing, among others.  The reasons are twofold.  First, some steps influence other steps as in the case of regulation (which has already been discussed), in a pitch raise for obvious reasons, or in voicing where we can’t really make very refined decisions about any particular note until we get the voice of the entire piano in the ballpark to know what it is that we are refining to.  The other important factor has to do with the psychology of perception.  We are able to discern smaller variations and differences when the entire scope of our view is reduced.  So each successive pass we make in a tuning, voicing, or regulation allows us to narrow our focus to a finer and finer set of criteria.   By roughing things in first followed by a second (or third) pass to achieve our final goal, whether it’s regulation, tuning or voicing we’ll deliver more consistent and higher quality results.        <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com </div>   </div> </body> </html>