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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's no doubt it takes some of us =
longer than
others to tune a piano. The time it takes is immaterial so long as the =
job is
true and you feel personally happy with it. My last rush job was =
Thursday night
(last) when I was obliged to tune - or check the tunings of - 13 pianos, =
mostly
Grands (Yamahas, Steinways and the like) ditto the few uprights - in 4 =
1/2
hours. This is not bravado, this is just the way I have to work =
sometimes.
Another time like that is in my schools. One of them has 25 pianos - a =
motley
collection which includes a Yamaha CF3 concert, a couple of model "A"s =
and some
Yamaha U3s + a Harpsichord. I have to reckon on spending average 1/2 =
hour on
each. I have six schools and the time in them is mostly taken up getting =
from
one piano (who's got the key?) to another. For my private tunings I =
operate on
the basis of one hour - that is to say 50minutes or so allowing me time =
to get
to the next one. I work best under pressure and timing them the way I do =
gives
me just that amount of stimulus. Doesn't always work, but mostly there's =
no
trouble I can't deal with in that time. Knotting broken strings, =
regluing key
tops, easing stiff centres, adjusting the pedals - you name it. BUT =
if the
piano has to be brought up to A = 440 (I refuse to say "Standard =
Pitch") from up
to a semi-tone flat then I usually allow 1 3/4 hours and try to get it =
done,
including fine tuning, in 1 1/2 hours. There's no such thing as =
"Standard Pitch"
In Vienna the ruling pitch is 445 in UK it's 440 and in early =
music it can
be 430, 415 or even 397Hz. OK?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards to you all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G =
(UK)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>