<HTML>In a message dated 7/19/01 4:32:16 AM Central Daylight Time, A440A@AOL.COM Ed Foote writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">     I only had forty minutes, but that is enough time, (I think) to properly tune a piano with a good machine and some hammer technique. No, it isn't a comfortable tuning speed, but  I think a professional should be able to handle it.  If not,this is a good time to subject the result to a peer critique.  If it sounded mediocre to any list members that heard it,  I certainly would want to know.  Even if it just sounded rough in places, I think that would be valuable information. </BLOCKQUOTE> Well, Ed, my usual time spent tuning a typical piano in someone's home is 30-45 minutes.  With that being typical, I can easily tune 1000 or more pianos a year and earn a real good living doing so. Right now, I'm involved with the production of a musical and have had to work in time segments of just about what you had, 40 minutes to change pitch, repin a jack flange, align, file, voice and regulate an entire piano.  I paced and timed myself each time I worked and was always done 5 minutes before rehearsal started and have one last tuning to do tomorrow.  I'll have about the same amount of time at the theater to tune the vocal warm up piano too. I certainly know how to work under pressure and time constraints as any professional piano technician must.  But I am simply not going to present the EBVT with tempered octaves in 45 minutes and with Wally Brooks standing there harassing me about it, telling me that I look like a beginner trying to learn how to tune. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>