<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I remember years back going to the Little Red School = House getting my first dose of speed and accuracy.  The discussion was on = how long  should it take to regulate a set of dampers. Everyone gave = their time estimates, some were as high as 4 hrs. .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Then in walks in one of the factory damper = regulators who does nothing else but concert Yamaha damper regulation. 18 minutes top to bottom.  Done. He was turbo charged like nothing else I have ever witnessed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>The point in the discussion was we can either choose = to pokey at a comfortable rate and do so-so work or we can go like a bat out of = hell and have to pay extreme attention, something akin to a race car driver = driving at 55 mph. vs. 220 mph.  Yamaha contends that working at an extreme = fast rate yields not  only better production but with practice, = better accuracy. You have to pay more attention and not let anything clog = your thinking in order to do this correctly. However going at a snail's pace = allows the mind to drift think about other things which are not pertinent to = the issues at hand.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>  I have never forgotten that bit of advise and = I find that I have applied that to many of the repetitive tasks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Tuning is high on the list for this idea.  = 10-15 mins. is just about all the time one really needs to make a pitch and tension = adjustment. Like many have said on this list, it's really not a tuning as it is an adjustment. The goal is get the pitch into the ballpark without = wasting valuable time and effort.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Tom Servinsky,RPT</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM" = title=Wimblees@AOL.COM>Wimblees@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 20, 2002 = 7:54 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: re : speedy = gonzales</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a = message dated 4/20/02 11:47:03 PM !!!First Boot!!!, <A href="mailto:RNossaman@KSCABLE.com">RNossaman@KSCABLE.com</A> = writes: <BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE">Actually, the speed was the very least of the points. I = have no doubt that <BR>under fifteen minute pitch raises are possible. = <BR><BR>Ron N <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I can do the actual pitch raise, cranking = all strings up to "pitch," in about 10 minutes. The process of pitch raising and = tuning takes about an hour to 1:15, depending on the piano. <BR><BR>Wim =  </FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>