Practical pitch changing

[Paul]

Don and others
 I mute the entire piano. Then, working with the center or unmuted string,
quickly raise or lower the pitch as needed and immediately move to the muted
strings of that note and move the pin about as much as the open one-"deaf
tuning" the rest of the unison. I move very fast, approximating the pitch
and making sure my wrench squarely hits the next pin. I do not pull any
mutes. The whole process of muting and pitch correction takes less than 10
minutes. Its pleasing to find how many "deaf tuned" strings that are near
perfect. I use this technique when only a section of the piano needs pitch
correction as stated by some one in a previous post. It really speeds up the
floor tunings.

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: Don <drose@dlcwest.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Practical pitch changing


> 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.
> Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
> drose@dlcwest.com
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