Going over it twice

[Kristinn Leifsson]

So, do you needle anything more than the strings; dampers, fallboard?  

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Krsitinn



At 10:36 18.5.2000 EDT, you wrote:
>I agree that it is faster to tune a piano by going over it twice than 
>belabor the first pass.  Sometimes, the notes just move!  My first pass with 
>Cybertuner takes about 25 minutes.  I then put the laptop back in its case 
>and do the second pass by ear.  It just takes a few minutes to take care of 
>anything I think I can improve upon.  It  also takes another few minutes to 
>touch up the voicing using a single needle through the top of the strings.  
>I find that about 80% of the effort in making a piano sound better is that 
>last few minutes I spend voicing.  The whole service call, including 
>cleaning keys and dusting, takes 45-60 minutes.
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>When you tune string by string (instead of muting entire sections) you can 
>catch your mistakes (in the unisons) faster. If I spent more than an hour in 
>someones house, my clients would think that there was something majorly 
>wrong with their piano or with me!
>
>Carol Beigel, RPT
>Greenbelt, Maryland
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