When is it enough?

[Newton Hunt]

Dear list,

I have the original open reel tape recording of that recording making
tunings.

Steve tuned the piano three times in 30 minutes.  Five minutes for the
first run through, 10 for the second and 15 for the final.  That was
when Steve was in his prime and much younger.

Steve would spend 45 minutes tuning a piano in a customers home.  He
would spend his time tuning only, would not converse beyond the
niceties and necessities of doing business, would not offer to fix the
grandfather clock, the plumbing or the kids toys.  If minutes to get
the the next customer.  Eight pianos a day, five days a week.  You
work out the numbers.  

Steve spend a lot of time researching the best possible equal
temperament, has developed a means of calculating the tuning of the
entire piano by measuring the scale and wire diameters, entering the
data in a spread sheet which calculates a cent deviation for every
note.  

He is the fastest and at the same time the slowest tuner I know.

		Newton