Practical pitch changing

[Don]

Hi Brian,

"Deaf tuning" has been a stable in my skill set for a long long time.
Sounds like you have combined some aural with that to "fine tune" the deaf
tuning.

At 10:26 AM 8/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>So, in a situation like this, where I really didn't have time to do as much
>tuning as I'd have liked, what to do??
>
>Here's what I did.
>
>I very quickly tuned through the center strings of the midsection, and very,
>very quickly through the bass, more or less to get an idea of how far I had
>to move those tuning pins to drop the pitch.  Then, without listening at
>all, I took each of the remaining pins in the section, and very quickly gave
>each pin a move in similar size and direction as to what I had done the
>center strings.
>
>From that point onward, I tuned as I would any other piano, from start to
>finish.

>I just wondered if anyone else uses or has used a similar method.?
>
>FWIW...
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, PA
>btrout@desupernet.net
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
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