My 10-minute tuning in practice!

[Richard Moody]

10 minute pitch raise???

Of course I had to try to match this, couldn't do it first two tries. (On
an upright and console) (I suppose the 10 min wizards are doing their
stuff on grands?) But I did discover the best way to tune tritones by
muting only one string.Of course you automaticaly mute two strings, one
string on two tritones. The exercise then becomes tuning two strings
unmuted, which we all practice, right?  Before moving the mute you tune
the other two strings of the next tritone, then move the mute up two
notes, and continue leaving one string of the tritones untuned until you
advance an octave.  Now go back and tune the remaining strings. You can
hear if the first two strings (these should be fairly close unisons as the
object to learn to tune accuratly faster) (other wise just guess how far
to turn the t pins) (See Ken Burton's excellent tip, and be done in 5 min)

are sharp or flat so tune thethird accorgingly. When tuning an octave
above
 this,  it can get murky,but this section in  uprights is beyond the
dampers, 
so maybe a temp strip here out to #88 would be faster. 
	It is hard for me to slop tune a temperament, unless it is more than 1/4
step (25 cents) low, so I end up spending at least half of the 10 minutes
in the temp.  which makes the rest of the piano impossible to do in the
remaining  5.  I suppose since orchestra members are now using "pocket
tuners" (ETDs) they wouldn't hold it against the piano tuner setting pitch
and the first 16 notes to such a device.(I do know that with a particular
Korg, temperament in a pitch raise can easily be set in 60 seconds.)  For
what I am talking about I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is
available for under $50. If this enabled me to raise to pitch in 10
minutes THAT would be hard to resist. 

Ric 991/2% 
ps
To answer Karen's question, sometimes I skip as many as 10 of the bottom
notes in a pitch raise.  Since in the last 8 notes tuners tend to err
sharp, I might get lucky there, but usually not.  
 
> << Now I am curious to know how many of you tune every string during a
pitch
>  raise, as opposed to just the middle string.   I really want to know!
>  
>  Karen Johnson
>  Rochester, MN
>   >>
> I tune pretty much every string (sometimes skip the last few notes, top
and
> bottom), but it usually takes 15 min. or so, not 10.
> John S.
>