Going over it twice

[Carol Beigel]

Actually I did, Kristinn.  Most piano tuners voice hammers, so that is 
implied that the needling is done to the hammer felts. Through the top of 
the strings, meaning from the direction of the top and not pulling the 
action is implied between the strings. American English has many 
idiosyncracies (sp?).  Most people would have understood that post, but I do 
come from the land of "define is"! :)

Carol Beigel



>From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Going over it twice
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:10:17 +0100
>
>So, do you needle anything more than the strings; dampers, fallboard?
>
>Thou hath not readeth thine message three times as thou shouldeth!
>
>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.
> >
> >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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