Al and Ric,<div><br></div><div>We probably have different definitions of "pounding."</div><div><br></div><div>There was a tuner in the area that *every* strike was about as loud as my normal test blow (90-100 dB). Then his test blows were even louder than his normal, which were louder than my test blow.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's probably all in the definition. I'm not a pounder by my friend's definition, or by my own definition. I might be by yours. And as I said early on in this discussion, I'm always open to learning different ways of stabilization. (Like using a hammer shank, which I brought up a few years back. It works, but it's more cumbersome.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>JF<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:37 AM, AlliedPianoCraft <<a href="mailto:AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com">AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial">Ric....This is what I've been shouting here. I just
don't understand the necessity of pounding!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">I guess it's how you learned in the first place and your
natural preference.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Al Guecia</font></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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<div><font face="Arial">----- Original Message ----- </font>
<div><font face="Arial">From: "Richard Brekne" <</font><a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">ricb@pianostemmer.no</font></a><font face="Arial">></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">To: <</font><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">pianotech@ptg.org</font></a><font face="Arial">></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:10 AM</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Subject: for those on the fence about hearing
protection..</font></div></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><font face="Arial">>I have to
disagree... there simply is no such thing as a piano that <br>>
<<requiress>> hard pounding to get into and hold a stable
tuning. There <br>> are too many tuners out there that are capable of
extremely stable <br>> tunings without pounding. There may be tuners
who can only tune this <br>> way... and there may be tuners who cant get a
stable tuning one way or <br>> the other... but that by no means says
anything about pianos... only the <br>> tuners.<br>> <br>> Pounding is
simply not necessary. Pound away if you find it the easiest <br>> way
to be sure... but in the end the <<stable tuning>> is in the wrist.
<br>> Pounders... at least the good ones... simply set the string by learning
<br>> the right combination of where to leave the pin and how much pounding
to <br>> bring it into place. Non pounders... at least teh good ones of
these <br>> just set the string where it should be in the first place and no
amount <br>> of pounding will do anything positive at all.<br>> <br>>
This is a classic different strokes for different folks thingy... there <br>>
is no <<one way>> here.<br>> <br>> Cheers<br>> RicB</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>