pitch raise time

[Richard Brekne]

Terry... grin.. you must understand this practice is going to varie a bit from tuner to tuner. Largely dependent on how accurate you want your first pass to be, how good you are at it, and how much over pull you allow for. Some techs, tho not many I believe, refuse to pull pitch over some maximum above standard pitch.

But to answer your question directly and quickly. A bit of practice with quick passes, and you will get the nack of it. After a bit you might suprise yourself with how close you can get many strings to being tuned after one pass.

After the first pass... the piano should be ready to be tuned. And after it is tuned then its ready to be "really tuned".

In your first attempts.. do not be overly concerned about 20 minutes. Just proceed quickly and roughly. The point is to not get hung up at all trying to get the strings, unisons and octaves.. just right... thats for the second time around. As a begginner.. force yourself to make your first pass in under 40 minutes.. and spend some of this extra time learning to get a better feel for the tuning hammer.. and work towards this 20 minute time during your first weeks / months.

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

pianolover@worldspy.net wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Let me preface by reminding everyone that I am a "newbie", so please bear with me. Here's my question: I have been hearing/reading that the average 1st pass pitch raise can be done in about 20 minutes! That would translate to just over NINE seconds per string, including time to "set" each string, plus time moving from pin to pin, from start to finish. How many techs out there can "fly" through a pitch raise this fast? And I must assume you're NOT counting the time it would take for muting. Just very curious.
>
> Terry Peterson
> Los Angeles, CA
>
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